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title: Desolate will be the spot that saw us so oft united in joy, lonely t… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: Desolate will be the spot that saw us so oft united in joy, lonely the moonlight that shone on our dance. Who acts: Desolate spot, moonlight, our. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 9

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Desolate will be the spot that saw us so oft united in joy, lonely the moonlight that shone on our dance.

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**Who acts:** Desolate spot, moonlight, our · **What happens:** desolate, be, see, shine, dance · **To what, where:** Desolate spot, us, oft united joy, dance

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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: who acts (Desolate spot, moonlight, 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:pg74323:24:9
# text = Desolate will be the spot that saw us so oft united in joy, lonely the moonlight that shone on our dance.
1	Desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	compound	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | future |  | the Desolate spot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | the Desolate spot | us |  | oft united joy |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | past | the moonlight |  |  | our dance |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dance=Location |
| 5 | **dance** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «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 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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