Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 89
We have now sufficient wealth, but we would wish to thank you for your forbearance, and entertain you as an honoured guest."
Who acts: We · What happens: have, wish, thank, entertain, honour · To what, where: sufficient wealth, you
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sufficient | advmod |
| 4 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wealth | amod |
| 5 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 wish | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wish | aux |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 thank | mark |
| 12 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wish | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thank | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 forbearance | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forbearance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forbearance | forbearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thank | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entertain | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entertain | cc |
| 19 | entertain | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wish | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 entertain | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 guest | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 guest | det |
| 23 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 guest | amod |
| 24 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entertain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | sufficient wealth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | would | we | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | for your forbearance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for forbearance=Attribute | |||
| 4 | entertain | present | we not said here | you | as a honoured guest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | honour | participle | tree rules |
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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