Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 41

But as the young man entreated them to hear him, the Bürgermeister permitted him to speak, provided he would be short.

Who acts: young man, Bürgermeister, bridegroom · What happens: entreat, hear, permit, speak, provide, be · To what, where: pardon, bridegroom · 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 (young man, Bürgermeister, bridegroom), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 provided	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 entreated	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entreated	nsubj
6	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 provided	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 entreated	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hear	mark
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 entreated	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 permitted	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bürgermeister	det
13	Bürgermeister	Bürgermeister	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 permitted	nsubj
14	permitted	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 entreated	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 permitted	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 permitted	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 provided	punct
19	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 short	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 short	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 short	cop
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 provided	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 provided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	the young man	pardon		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	hear	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	bridegroom		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	permit	past	the Bürgermeister	bridegroom		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Bürgermeister not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	provide	past				vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
6	is	would	bridegroom		short property	tree rules

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 41