Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 28

"Hence I give it as my opinion," concluded the Bürgermeister, "that as force and stratagem would only bring upon us expense and danger, and the result is uncertain, that--that--a--that we allow the matter to rest as it is, and leave the criminal to the punishment of Heaven.

Who acts: mouth, result, we, my · What happens: give, conclude, bring, be, allow, rest · To what, where: town, Bürgermeister, that, matter, criminal, punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouth, result, we, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
2	Hence	hence	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 concluded	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 opinion	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 opinion	nmod:poss
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	concluded	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bürgermeister	det
13	Bürgermeister	Bürgermeister	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 concluded	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Bürgermeister	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Bürgermeister	punct
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 bring	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 force	case
18	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stratagem	cc
20	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 force	conj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 bring	advmod
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 concluded	ccomp
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 us	case
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obl
26	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 danger	cc
28	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 expense	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 uncertain	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 uncertain	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 result	det
32	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 uncertain	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 uncertain	cop
34	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 concluded	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 that	punct
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 that	nsubj
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 that	punct
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 uncertain	obl
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 a	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 that	appos
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 allow	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 allow	mark
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 allow	nsubj
44	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 a	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 matter	det
46	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 allow	iobj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 rest	mark
48	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 allow	xcomp
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 is	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 is	nsubj
51	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 rest	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 leave	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 leave	cc
54	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 rest	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 criminal	det
56	criminal	criminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 leave	obj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 punishment	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 punishment	det
59	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 leave	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 Heaven	case
61	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 punishment	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 concluded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present	every mouth = mouth	town		as my opinion; hence property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	conclude	past		the Bürgermeister			tree rules
3	bring in a quote	would		that		as force and stratagem; upon us; expense and danger obj	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent that=Destination expense=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the result			that that obl; uncertain property	tree rules
5	allow in a quote	present	we		the matter		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer matter=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	rest not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	be in a quote	present	result				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	leave in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	the criminal	the punishment of Heaven		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent criminal=Theme to punishment=Recipient
9	opine in a quote		my				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
10	punish in a quote			Heaven			nom punishment «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 28