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title: He came and insisted on our going with him, perfect strangers though… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: He came and insisted on our going with him, perfect strangers though we were, at once to his house; assuring us Mrs. Samper was expecting us, breakfast was being made ready, and our rooms awaited us. Who acts: Samper, our, we, Mrs.. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie L
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 72

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He came and insisted on our going with him, perfect strangers though we were, at once to his house; assuring us Mrs. Samper was expecting us, breakfast was being made ready, and our rooms awaited us.

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**Who acts:** Samper, our, we, Mrs., rooms · **What happens:** come, insist, go, be, assure, expect · **To what, where:** perfect strangers, us, breakfast

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Samper, our, we, Mrs.), 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:pg74323:5:72
# text = He came and insisted on our going with him, perfect strangers though we were, at once to his house; assuring us Mrs. Samper was expecting us, breakfast was being made ready, and our rooms awaited us.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	insisted	insist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	Samper	Samper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	_
35	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
41	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Samper | perfect strangers |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle | Samper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | our |  |  |  |  | with Samper | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | to Samper's house; Samper *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **assure** | gerund | Samper *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 6 | **expect** | past · progressive | Mrs. | us |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | past · passive |  | breakfast |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 8 | **await** | past | our rooms | us |  |  |  |  | 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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