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title: We have now sufficient wealth, but we would wish to thank you for yo… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 every claus
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 89

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We have now sufficient wealth, but we would wish to thank you for your forbearance, and entertain you as an honoured guest."

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** have, wish, thank, entertain, honour · **To what, where:** sufficient wealth, you

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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 (We), 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:pg74323:15:89
# text = We have now sufficient wealth, but we would wish to thank you for your forbearance, and entertain you as an honoured guest."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	forbearance	forbearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	entertain	entertain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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