Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 56
A further conversation betrayed to the forester that the strangers were Venetians, and the result of it was that he permitted them to depart without hindrance, or without accepting the smallest indemnity.
Who acts: strangers, further conversation · What happens: betray, be, depart, accept, result · To what, where: further conversation, Venetians, smallest indemnity, result
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers, further conversation), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 conversation | det |
| 2 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 conversation | amod |
| 3 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 permitted | nsubj |
| 4 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 conversation | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 forester | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forester | det |
| 7 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 betrayed | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 Venetians | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 strangers | det |
| 10 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Venetians | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Venetians | cop |
| 12 | Venetians | Venetian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 forester | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 result | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 result | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 result | det |
| 16 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 conversation | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 result | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 permitted | cop |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 permitted | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 permitted | nsubj |
| 22 | permitted | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 permitted | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 depart | mark |
| 25 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 permitted | xcomp |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 hindrance | case |
| 27 | hindrance | hindrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 depart | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 accepting | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 accepting | cc |
| 30 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 31 accepting | mark |
| 31 | accepting | accept | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 permitted | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 indemnity | det |
| 33 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 indemnity | amod |
| 34 | indemnity | indemnity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 accepting | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | participle | a further conversation not said here | to the forester | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the strangers | Venetians | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a further conversation | One nsubj; strangers = stranger obj; permit property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | a further conversation not said here | without hindrance | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | accept | gerund | a further conversation not said here | the smallest indemnity | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indemnity=Theme | ||||
| 6 | result | result | nom result «phenomenon 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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