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title: Merciful Heaven!" he cries, "hast thou heard our earnest petitions?" — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Merciful Heaven!" he cries, "hast thou heard our earnest petitions?" Who acts: Kaiser, thou, our. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8, 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 8, sentence 6

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Merciful Heaven!" he cries, "hast thou heard our earnest petitions?"

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**Who acts:** Kaiser, thou, our · **What happens:** cry, have, hear, petition · **To what, where:** earnest petitions

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, thou, 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:pg74323:9:6
# text = Merciful Heaven!" he cries, "hast thou heard our earnest petitions?"
1	Merciful	Merciful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	petitions	petition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | Kaiser |  |  |  |  | Merciful *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Kaiser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | thou | our earnest petitions |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer petition=Stimulus |
| 4 | **petition** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: 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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