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title: To see that we must die grieves me not, for all our beloved are gone… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: To see that we must die grieves me not, for all our beloved are gone on before us; but that we are the last of our race, and our line becomes with us extinct, that it is that fills my heart with woe. Who acts: we, line, our. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 14

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To see that we must die grieves me not, for all our beloved are gone on before us; but that we are the last of our race, and our line becomes with us extinct, that it is that fills my heart with woe.

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**Who acts:** we, line, our · **What happens:** see, die, not grieve, belov, go on, be · **To what, where:** me · **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: who acts (we, line, our), 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:pg74323:24:14
# text = To see that we must die grieves me not, for all our beloved are gone on before us; but that we are the last of our race, and our line becomes with us extinct, that it is that fills my heart with woe.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	grieves	grieve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
14	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
44	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** | must | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **grieve** | present |  | me |  |  |  | our *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer our=Result |
| 4 | **belov** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go on** | participle |  |  |  |  | before us |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before we=Location |
| 6 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | of our race; last *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **become** | present | our line |  |  |  |  | with us; extinct *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | present | line |  |  |  |  | with woe; my heart *obj*; fill *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **race** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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