Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 13
The two elder, having lost all, determined to return to the treasure in the mountains, and compelled the youngest to go with them.
Who acts: two elder, all · What happens: have, lose, determine, return, compel, go · To what, where: all, mountains, youngest
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder, all), 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 | 3 elder | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 elder | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 compelled | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 elder | acl |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 all | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 determined | punct |
| 9 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 return | mark |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 determined | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 treasure | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 treasure | det |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mountains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountains | det |
| 17 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 return | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 compelled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 compelled | cc |
| 20 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youngest | det |
| 22 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 compelled | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 compelled | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 compelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the two elder not said here | all | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | the two elder not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | determine | participle | all not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | all not said here | the mountains | to the treasure result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to treasure=Result | |||
| 5 | compel | past | the two elder | the youngest | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | the two elder not said here | with brothers = brother | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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