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title: The burden is heavy and hard to bear; I sink,--I die, and my dying s… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The burden is heavy and hard to bear; I sink,--I die, and my dying song Is a song of joy to the false one's ear. Who acts: burden, I, dying song, my. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 33

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The burden is heavy and hard to bear; I sink,--I die, and my dying song Is a song of joy to the false one's ear.

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**Who acts:** burden, I, dying song, my · **What happens:** be, bear, sink, die, sing · **To what, where:** song

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burden, I, dying song, my), 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:pg8122:17:33
# text = The burden is heavy and hard to bear; I sink,--I die, and my dying song Is a song of joy to the false one's ear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the burden |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the burden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | the burden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sink** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **die** | present | I |  |  |  |  | to the false one's ear | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **is a** | present | my dying song | a song |  |  |  | of joy | tree rules |
| 8 | **sing** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication 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 of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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