Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 64

Another legend relates how a wealthy countryman had lent an Earl von Regenstein a large sum of money, but when he came to demand payment was repulsed with scorn and derision.

Who acts: legend, Regenstein · What happens: relate, lend, come, demand, repulse, sum · To what, where: wealthy countryman, payment, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend, Regenstein), 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	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 legend	det
2	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 relates	nsubj
3	relates	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lent	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 countryman	det
6	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countryman	amod
7	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lent	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lent	aux
9	lent	lend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 relates	ccomp
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Regenstein	det
11	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Regenstein	compound
12	von	von	PROPN	_	13 Regenstein	compound
13	Regenstein	Regenstein	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lent	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sum	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sum	amod
16	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lent	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 money	case
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sum	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 relates	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 demand	mark
25	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	xcomp
26	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 repulsed	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 repulsed	aux:pass
28	repulsed	repulse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 demand	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 scorn	case
30	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 repulsed	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 derision	cc
32	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scorn	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 relates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	relate	present	another legend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lend	past · perfect · passive		a wealthy countryman	a Earl von Regenstein obj; a large sum of money obj	tree rules
3	come	past	Regenstein			tree rules
4	demand speech: request	to-infinitive	Regenstein not said here			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	repulse	past · passive		payment	with scorn and derision	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	sum			money		nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 64