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title: Even to keep one as hostage, and allow the other to depart, he absol… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Even to keep one as hostage, and allow the other to depart, he absolutely refused. Who acts: other, Adam. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 27

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Even to keep one as hostage, and allow the other to depart, he absolutely refused.

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**Who acts:** other, Adam · **What happens:** keep, allow, depart, refuse · **To what, where:** one, other

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, Adam), 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:pg74323:23:27
# text = Even to keep one as hostage, and allow the other to depart, he absolutely refused.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hostage	hostage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  | as hostage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | infinitive |  | the other |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer other=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **depart** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **refuse** | past | Adam |  |  |  |  | absolutely *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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