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title: But the treasurer was a vicious and avaricious man, who resolved to… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But the treasurer was a vicious and avaricious man, who resolved to have the stone at any price, even by force if necessary, and as the friends would leave him, he threatened to throw them into prison if the stone were not delivered to him as his property for the hundred thousand Thaler. Who acts: t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 109

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But the treasurer was a vicious and avaricious man, who resolved to have the stone at any price, even by force if necessary, and as the friends would leave him, he threatened to throw them into prison if the stone were not delivered to him as his property for the hundred thousand Thaler.

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**Who acts:** treasurer, vicious man, friends, finder · **What happens:** be, resolve, have, leave, threaten, throw · **To what, where:** vicious man, stone, price, finder, friends, prison

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasurer, vicious man, friends, finder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:14:110
# text = But the treasurer was a vicious and avaricious man, who resolved to have the stone at any price, even by force if necessary, and as the friends would leave him, he threatened to throw them into prison if the stone were not delivered to him as his property for the hundred thousand Thaler.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	treasurer	treasurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	vicious	vicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	avaricious	avaricious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	compound	_	_
56	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	Thaler	Thaler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the treasurer | a vicious man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | a vicious man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | a vicious man *not said here* | the stone |  | any price |  | by force | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | would | the friends | finder |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **threaten** | past | finder |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | finder *not said here* | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | into prison *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into prison=Result |
| 7 | **not** **deliver** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the stone | finder |  |  | as finder's property for the thousand Thaler | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |

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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.

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**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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