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title: Not only was he able to satisfy all the demands of his creditors, bu… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4, with its dependency tree a
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 94

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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.

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**Who acts:** sympathy · **What happens:** not be, satisfy, state, return, receive, demand · **To what, where:** demands, received loan, creditors

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:21:94
# text = 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.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	demands	demand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	creditors	creditor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	agreeably	agreeably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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