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title: They threatened to murder the youngest if he would not accompany the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They threatened to murder the youngest if he would not accompany them, and to save his life he yielded to their entreaties. Who acts: brothers, two. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 9

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They threatened to murder the youngest if he would not accompany them, and to save his life he yielded to their entreaties.

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**Who acts:** brothers, two · **What happens:** threaten, murder, not accompany, save, yield · **To what, where:** youngest, brothers, life

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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 (brothers, two), 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:pg74323:22:9
# text = They threatened to murder the youngest if he would not accompany them, and to save his life he yielded to their entreaties.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	murder	murder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obj	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **murder** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | the youngest |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **accompany** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | two | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | two *not said here* | two's life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 5 | **yield** | past | two |  |  |  |  | to brothers's entreaties | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=Theme |

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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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