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title: "Weep not, sister!" said another, with light moaning; "weep not over… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Weep not, sister!" said another, with light moaning; "weep not over our inevitable destiny. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, 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 7, sentence 13

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"Weep not, sister!" said another, with light moaning; "weep not over our inevitable destiny.

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**What happens:** not weep, say, moan · **To what, where:** sister, another, inevitable destiny · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg74323:24:13
# text = "Weep not, sister!" said another, with light moaning; "weep not over our inevitable destiny.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	weep	weep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **weep** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | sister |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  | another |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **moan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | light *compound* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **weep** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | our inevitable destiny |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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