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title: Weep no longer, child of grief; brighten thy saddened countenance. — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Weep no longer, child of grief; brighten thy saddened countenance. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15, 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 15, sentence 99

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Weep no longer, child of grief; brighten thy saddened countenance.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** weep, brighten, sadden · **To what, where:** child, saddened countenance

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg74323:16:101
# text = Weep no longer, child of grief; brighten thy saddened countenance.
1	Weep	weep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	brighten	brighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	saddened	sadden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | imperative | you *not said here* | child of grief |  |  |  | long *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **brighten** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy saddened countenance |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent countenance=Patient |
| 3 | **sadden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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