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title: They expressed themselves, however, willing to make indemnification,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: They expressed themselves, however, willing to make indemnification, if the forester would only make his demands. Who acts: strangers, forester, One. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 55

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They expressed themselves, however, willing to make indemnification, if the forester would only make his demands.

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**Who acts:** strangers, forester, One · **What happens:** express, make, demand · **To what, where:** strangers, indemnification, demands

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:15:55
# text = They expressed themselves, however, willing to make indemnification, if the forester would only make his demands.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	indemnification	indemnification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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