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title: "In peace my poor Karl died, and I closed the loving eyes--and my he… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "In peace my poor Karl died, and I closed the loving eyes--and my heart died. Who acts: peace, Samper, heart. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4, 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 4, sentence 101

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"In peace my poor Karl died, and I closed the loving eyes--and my heart died.

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**Who acts:** peace, Samper, heart · **What happens:** die, close · **To what, where:** loving eyes

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace, Samper, heart), 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:pg74323:5:101
# text = "In peace my poor Karl died, and I closed the loving eyes--and my heart died.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Karl	Karl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | past | peace |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **close** *in a quote* | past | Samper  Mr. *= samper* | the loving eyes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | past | my heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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