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title: Is not death the destiny of all, and is there a more glorious death… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Is not death the destiny of all, and is there a more glorious death than that of the conqueror in the hour of victory? Who acts: destiny. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 73

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Is not death the destiny of all, and is there a more glorious death than that of the conqueror in the hour of victory?

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**Who acts:** destiny · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** death, glorious death

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (destiny), 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:pg74323:11:73
# text = Is not death the destiny of all, and is there a more glorious death than that of the conqueror in the hour of victory?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	csubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the destiny of all | a glorious death |  |  |  | than that of the conqueror in the hour of victory | 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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