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title: Jutta at last resolved to give up Ernst for her father's benefit, bu… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Jutta at last resolved to give up Ernst for her father's benefit, but she would see him once more, and assure him that her filial love could not lessen her affection for the choice of her heart. Who acts: Jutta, filial love. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 30

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Jutta at last resolved to give up Ernst for her father's benefit, but she would see him once more, and assure him that her filial love could not lessen her affection for the choice of her heart.

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**Who acts:** Jutta, filial love · **What happens:** resolve, give up, see, assure, not lessen, love · **To what, where:** Jutta, Ernst, affection

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jutta, filial love), 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:pg74323:17:30
# text = Jutta at last resolved to give up Ernst for her father's benefit, but she would see him once more, and assure him that her filial love could not lessen her affection for the choice of her heart.
1	Jutta	Jutta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	Ernst	Ernst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	filial	filial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	lessen	lessen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | participle · passive |  | Jutta |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | to-infinitive |  |  | Ernst |  |  | for Jutta's father's benefit | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ernst=Source |
| 3 | **see** | would | Jutta | Ernst |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **assure** | infinitive | Jutta *not said here* |  | Ernst |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **lessen** | could | Jutta's filial love | Jutta's affection |  |  |  | for the choice of Jutta's heart | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent affection=Patient |
| 6 | **love** |  | Jutta |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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