Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 39
And from that time the dwarfs declined to oblige the neglectful citizens in any way, and since then the place has been called Spar-die-Müh.
Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: decline, not oblige, call · To what, where: neglectful citizens, way, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 declined | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 declined | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dwarfs | det |
| 6 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 declined | nsubj |
| 7 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 oblige | mark |
| 9 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 declined | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 citizens | det |
| 11 | neglectful | neglectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 citizens | amod |
| 12 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 oblige | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 oblige | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 18 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 then | case |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 called | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 declined | conj |
| 25 | Spar | Spar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Spar | punct |
| 27 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Spar | flat |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Müh | punct |
| 29 | Müh | Müh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 die | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 declined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decline | past | the dwarfs | time | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not oblige | to-infinitive | the dwarfs not said here | the neglectful citizens | any way | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | present · perfect · passive | the place | Spar xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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