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title: "We will build," they said, "a grave which neither man can destroy n… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "We will build," they said, "a grave which neither man can destroy nor storms and tempests wash away." Who acts: We, tribes, man, storms. 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 84

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"We will build," they said, "a grave which neither man can destroy nor storms and tempests wash away."

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**Who acts:** We, tribes, man, storms · **What happens:** build, say, destroy, wash away · **To what, where:** grave · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, tribes, man, storms), 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:pg74323:11:84
# text = "We will build," they said, "a grave which neither man can destroy nor storms and tempests wash away."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
19	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	tempests	tempest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** *in a quote* | future | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  |  | a grave *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **destroy** *in a quote* | can | neither man | a grave |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **wash away** *in a quote* | present | storms and tempests |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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