Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 26
But Adam could not be induced to permit this.
What happens: not induce, permit · To what, where: Adam, this
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 induced | cc |
| 2 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 induced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 induced | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 induced | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 induced | aux:pass |
| 6 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 permit | mark |
| 8 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 induced | advcl |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 permit | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 induced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not induce | could · passive | Adam | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | permit | to-infinitive | this | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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