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title: Never wail or moan he utters and no tear is on his face, But a warri… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Never wail or moan he utters and no tear is on his face, But a warrior's curse he mutters on the crafty Saxon race. Who acts: you, moonlight, tear, curse. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Mississippi., sentence 20

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Never wail or moan he utters and no tear is on his face, But a warrior's curse he mutters on the crafty Saxon race.

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**Who acts:** you, moonlight, tear, curse, warrior · **What happens:** not wail, moan, utter, be, mutter, curse · **To what, where:** face, crafty Saxon race

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Mississippi.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, moonlight, tear, curse), 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:pg8122:4:20
# text = Never wail or moan he utters and no tear is on his face, But a warrior's curse he mutters on the crafty Saxon race.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	wail	wail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	moan	moan	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	utters	utter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	mutters	mutter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Saxon	Saxon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wail** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **moan** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | present | moonlight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | no tear |  |  | moonlight's face |  | moonlight *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | present | a warrior's curse |  |  | the crafty Saxon race |  | moonlight *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **curse** |  | a warrior |  |  |  |  |  | nom curse «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 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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