Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 154
He absolutely refused his consent to this injustice, and lived in retirement on the estate Kirchberg, which the Duke had given him, the name of which Eva's children bore.
Who acts: Eitel, children · What happens: refuse, live, give, bear, consent · To what, where: consent, retirement, Duke, Eitel
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eitel, children), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 3 refused | advmod |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 consent | nmod:poss |
| 5 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 injustice | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 injustice | det |
| 8 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lived | cc |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 retirement | case |
| 13 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Kirchberg | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Kirchberg | det |
| 16 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Kirchberg | compound |
| 17 | Kirchberg | Kirchberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 retirement | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 given | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Duke | det |
| 21 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Kirchberg | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | iobj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 name | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 name | det |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Kirchberg | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 bore | obl |
| 30 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 children | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Eva | case |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bore | nsubj |
| 33 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 name | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Eitel | Eitel's consent | to this injustice; absolutely property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | Eitel not said here | retirement on the estate Kirchberg | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in retirement=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Duke | Eitel | the estate Kirchberg obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bear | past | Eva's children | of the name | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | consent | Eitel | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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