Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 2

They also told them they must now become black, and would only visit them once a year, exhorted the brothers to firmness, and left them.

Who acts: ladies · What happens: tell, become, visit, exhort, leave · To what, where: casks, ladies, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ladies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 become	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 become	advmod
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 visit	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 visit	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 visit	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 visit	advmod
14	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 visit	obj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 visit	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 once	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 exhorted	punct
20	exhorted	exhort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brothers	det
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 exhorted	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 firmness	case
24	firmness	firmness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exhorted	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
27	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 left	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	ladies = lady		casks = cask			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	become	must	ladies = lady			now	black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	visit	would	ladies = lady not said here	ladies = lady			once property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	exhort	past	ladies = lady not said here		the brothers		to firmness	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient
5	leave	past	ladies = lady not said here	ladies = lady				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 2

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 2