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title: We beg you to forgive us, and we will make good the damage we have d… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: We beg you to forgive us, and we will make good the damage we have done." Who acts: We. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 11

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We beg you to forgive us, and we will make good the damage we have done."

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** beg, forgive, make, do · **To what, where:** you, us, damage

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. 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:pg74323:23:11
# text = We beg you to forgive us, and we will make good the damage we have done."
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | We |  | you |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **forgive** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | future | we | the damage |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Product |
| 4 | **do** | present · perfect | we | the damage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality |

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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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