Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 55
They expressed themselves, however, willing to make indemnification, if the forester would only make his demands.
Who acts: strangers, forester, One · What happens: express, make, demand · To what, where: strangers, indemnification, demands
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers, forester, One), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 expressed | nsubj |
| 2 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 expressed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 willing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 expressed | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 willing | xcomp |
| 10 | indemnification | indemnification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forester | det |
| 14 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expressed | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 demands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | strangers = stranger | strangers = stranger | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | strangers = stranger not said here | indemnification | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset indemnification=Product | ||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | would | the forester | One's demands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product | ||||
| 4 | demand | One | nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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