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title: The widow swore revenge, and consoled the weeping Trude, begging her… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The widow swore revenge, and consoled the weeping Trude, begging her only to wait till Walpurgisnacht[1] and her perfidious lover should be punished. Who acts: widow. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 111

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The widow swore revenge, and consoled the weeping Trude, begging her only to wait till Walpurgisnacht\[1\] and her perfidious lover should be punished.

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**Who acts:** widow · **What happens:** swear, console, beg, wait, punish · **To what, where:** revenge, weeping, Trude, perfidious lover

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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:pg74323:12:112
# text = The widow swore revenge, and consoled the weeping Trude, begging her only to wait till Walpurgisnacht[1] and her perfidious lover should be punished.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	consoled	console	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	Trude	Trude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	till	till	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Walpurgisnacht	Walpurgisnacht	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	perfidious	perfidious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | past | the widow | revenge |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Eventuality |
| 2 | **console** | past | the widow *not said here* | the weeping |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus weeping=Experiencer |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the widow *not said here* |  | Trude |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the widow *not said here* |  |  |  | till Walpurgisnacht |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **punish** | should · passive |  | Trude's perfidious lover |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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