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title: [2] In Germany one never says _Braut_--bride--after the marriage; bu… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] In Germany one never says _Braut_--bride--after the marriage; but _die junge Frau_--young wife. Who acts: Germany. 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 87

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\[2\] In Germany one never says \_Braut\_--bride--after the marriage; but \_die junge Frau\_--young wife.

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**Who acts:** Germany · **What happens:** not say, die · **To what, where:** Braut, junge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Germany), 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:pg74323:18:87
# text = [2] In Germany one never says _Braut_--bride--after the marriage; but _die junge Frau_--young wife.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Braut	Braut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	junge	junge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	Frau	Frau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | Germany | Braut |  |  |  | bride and the marriage *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent braut=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | present | Germany *not said here* | junge |  |  |  | young wife *obl* | tree rules |

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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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