Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 171
The man, whose name was Schlosser, felt little inclination for the expedition, and absolutely refused, even if they offered him eighty Thaler.
Who acts: name, man, Men, Schlosser · What happens: be, feel, refuse, offer, name · To what, where: Schlosser, little inclination, cave
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 (name, man, Men, Schlosser), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Schlosser | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Schlosser | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Schlosser | cop |
| 7 | Schlosser | Schlosser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 inclination | amod |
| 11 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 expedition | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 expedition | det |
| 14 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 17 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 18 refused | advmod |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 offered | punct |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 offered | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 offered | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 offered | nsubj |
| 23 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 refused | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 offered | obj |
| 25 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 Thaler | nummod |
| 26 | Thaler | thaler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Schlosser's name | Schlosser | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the man | little inclination | for the expedition | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent inclination=Location for expedition=Theme | |||
| 3 | refuse | past | absolutely property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | offer a condition, not said to happen | past | Men = man | cave | eighty Thaler obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | name | Schlosser | nom name «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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