Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 94
Not only was he able to satisfy all the demands of his creditors, but also at the stated time, agreeably with his promise, to return the received loan.
Who acts: sympathy · What happens: not be, satisfy, state, return, receive, demand · To what, where: demands, received loan, creditors
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sympathy), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 able | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 satisfy | mark |
| 7 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 demands | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 demands | det |
| 10 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 satisfy | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 creditors | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 creditors | nmod:poss |
| 13 | creditors | creditor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 demands | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 promise | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 promise | cc |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 promise | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 also | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 promise | punct |
| 22 | agreeably | agreeably | ADV | _ | 25 promise | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 promise | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 promise | nmod:poss |
| 25 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 able | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 return | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 return | mark |
| 28 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 promise | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 loan | det |
| 30 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 loan | amod |
| 31 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 return | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | sympathy | sympathy's promise conj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | satisfy | to-infinitive | sympathy not said here | all demands of sympathy's creditors | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus demand=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | sympathy not said here | the received loan | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | demand | sympathy's creditors | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | promise | sympathy | nom promise «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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