Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 13
"Weep not, sister!" said another, with light moaning; "weep not over our inevitable destiny.
What happens: not weep, say, moan · To what, where: sister, another, inevitable destiny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Weep | punct |
| 2 | Weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Weep | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Weep | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Weep | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Weep | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moaning | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 moaning | mark |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moaning | compound |
| 13 | moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 weep | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 weep | punct |
| 16 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 moaning | parataxis |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 weep | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 destiny | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 20 | inevitable | inevitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 destiny | amod |
| 21 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not weep in a quote | infinitive | sister | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | another | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | moan | gerund | light compound | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not weep in a quote | infinitive | our inevitable destiny | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
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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