Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 109

Then the German wooers were enraged, and said, "Not without combat will we permit these strangers to rob us of the glory of our land."

Who acts: combat, land · What happens: enrage, say, permit, rob, glory · To what, where: German wooers, strangers, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (combat, land), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 enraged	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wooers	det
3	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wooers	amod
4	wooers	wooer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 enraged	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enraged	aux:pass
6	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enraged	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 permit	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 permit	punct
12	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 combat	advmod
13	without	without	ADP	_	14 combat	case
14	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 permit	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 permit	aux
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 permit	nsubj
17	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 strangers	det
19	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 permit	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rob	mark
21	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 permit	advcl
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 rob	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 glory	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 glory	det
25	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rob	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 land	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 land	nmod:poss
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glory	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 enraged	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 enraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enrage	past · passive		the German wooers	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	permit in a quote	future	combat	this strangers		we nsubj	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme
4	rob in a quote	to-infinitive	combat not said here	us		of the glory of our land	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent we=Theme of glory=Source
5	glory in a quote		our land				nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 109