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title: “Touch me not, sister,” said he with a mournful voice, “lest thou be… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Touch me not, sister,” said he with a mournful voice, “lest thou be consumed by the fire which rages within me. Who acts: reader, fire. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 77

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“Touch me not, sister,” said he with a mournful voice, “lest thou be consumed by the fire which rages within me.

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**Who acts:** reader, fire · **What happens:** not touch, say, consume, rage · **To what, where:** reader, thou · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reader, fire), 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:pg77685:39:77
# text = “Touch me not, sister,” said he with a mournful voice, “lest thou be consumed by the fire which rages within me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rages	rage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | reader |  |  |  | sister *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | reader |  |  |  |  | with a mournful voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **consume** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | the fire | thou |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 4 | **rage** *in a quote* | present | the fire |  |  |  |  | within reader | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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