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title: "Oh! why did we meet? or meeting, why was it not earlier, when our l… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh! why did we meet? or meeting, why was it not earlier, when our love had been no sin? Who acts: we, meeting, our. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 42

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"Oh! why did we meet? or meeting, why was it not earlier, when our love had been no sin?

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**Who acts:** we, meeting, our · **What happens:** meet, be, love · **To what, where:** meeting, sin

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, meeting, 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:pg74323:18:42
# text = "Oh! why did we meet? or meeting, why was it not earlier, when our love had been no sin?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** *in a quote* | past · do-support | we | meeting |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | meeting | no sin |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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