Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 9
They threatened to murder the youngest if he would not accompany them, and to save his life he yielded to their entreaties.
Who acts: brothers, two · What happens: threaten, murder, not accompany, save, yield · To what, where: youngest, brothers, life
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 (brothers, two), 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 | 2 threatened | nsubj |
| 2 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 murder | mark |
| 4 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 threatened | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youngest | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 murder | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 accompany | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 accompany | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 accompany | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 accompany | advmod |
| 11 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 murder | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 accompany | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 yielded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 yielded | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 save | mark |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 yielded | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 yielded | nsubj |
| 20 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threatened | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 entreaties | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 23 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 yielded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threatened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past | brothers = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | murder not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | the youngest | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not accompany a condition, not said to happen | would | two | brothers = brother | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | two not said here | two's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | yield | past | two | to brothers's entreaties | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=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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