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title: All your words of kindness and passionate love, cannot crush the wor… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: All your words of kindness and passionate love, cannot crush the worm that is gnawing at the thread of my life--cannot silence the voice of conscience. Who acts: words, worm, your. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependen
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 22

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All your words of kindness and passionate love, cannot crush the worm that is gnawing at the thread of my life--cannot silence the voice of conscience.

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**Who acts:** words, worm, your · **What happens:** passionate, not crush, gnaw, word · **To what, where:** love, worm, kindness

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, worm, your), 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:pg74323:18:22
# text = All your words of kindness and passionate love, cannot crush the worm that is gnawing at the thread of my life--cannot silence the voice of conscience.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	passionate	passionate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **passionate** | infinitive | your words of kindness *not said here* | love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **crush** | can | your words of kindness | the worm |  |  |  | silence  the voice of conscience *conj* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient |
| 3 | **gnaw** | present · progressive | the worm |  |  |  |  | at the thread of my life | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at thread=Patient |
| 4 | **word** |  | your | kindness |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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