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title: Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I cannot die.' — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I cannot die.' Who acts: you, night, I. 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 99

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Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I cannot die.'

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**Who acts:** you, night, I · **What happens:** abide, be, not die

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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 (you, night, I), 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:pg74323:5:99
# text = Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I cannot die.'
1	Abide	abide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abide** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | night |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **die** | can | I |  |  |  |  | without Thee | 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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