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title: Then the German wooers were enraged, and said, "Not without combat w… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 109

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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."

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

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:2:109
# text = 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."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wooers	wooer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	rob	rob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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