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title: The two elder, having lost all, determined to return to the treasure… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The two elder, having lost all, determined to return to the treasure in the mountains, and compelled the youngest to go with them. Who acts: two elder, all. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 13

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The two elder, having lost all, determined to return to the treasure in the mountains, and compelled the youngest to go with them.

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**Who acts:** two elder, all · **What happens:** have, lose, determine, return, compel, go · **To what, where:** all, mountains, youngest

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder, all), 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:pg74323:22:13
# text = The two elder, having lost all, determined to return to the treasure in the mountains, and compelled the youngest to go with them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	compelled	compel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the two elder *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | the two elder *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **determine** | participle | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* |  |  | the mountains |  | to the treasure *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to treasure=Result |
| 5 | **compel** | past | the two elder | the youngest |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | the two elder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with brothers *= brother* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |

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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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