Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 94

At last a man from Lonau, who had experience in treasure-seeking, determined to attempt it, and engaged several workmen to assist him in the undertaking.

Who acts: experience · What happens: have, seek, determine, attempt, engage, assist · To what, where: experience, several workmen, Lonau, undertaking

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experience), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Lonau	case
6	Lonau	Lonau	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 man	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 seeking	mark
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seeking	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 treasure	punct
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 experience	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
16	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 seeking	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 attempt	mark
18	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 determined	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 attempt	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 engaged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 engaged	cc
22	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
23	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 workmen	amod
24	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 engaged	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 assist	mark
26	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 engaged	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 assist	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 undertaking	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 undertaking	det
30	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 assist	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		experience			at a last man from Lonau; who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient
2	seek	gerund	experience not said here				treasure compound	tree rules
3	determine not said to happen	participle	experience not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	attempt	to-infinitive	experience not said here	experience				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	engage	past		several workmen				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Patient
6	assist	to-infinitive			Lonau	the undertaking		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 94

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 94