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title: After a pause she exclaimed, "My poor motherless Eva!--as she will b… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: After a pause she exclaimed, "My poor motherless Eva!--as she will be before this morning's sun goes down. Who acts: Marshal. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 82

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After a pause she exclaimed, "My poor motherless Eva!--as she will be before this morning's sun goes down.

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**Who acts:** Marshal · **What happens:** exclaim, be · **To what, where:** poor motherless Eva · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Marshal), 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:pg74323:18:82
# text = After a pause she exclaimed, "My poor motherless Eva!--as she will be before this morning's sun goes down.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	motherless	motherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Eva	Eva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
18	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Marshal | My poor motherless Eva |  |  | after a pause |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent eva=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Marshal |  |  |  |  | this morning's sun *nsubj*; down, go *property* | 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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