Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 42
"Oh! why did we meet? or meeting, why was it not earlier, when our love had been no sin?
Who acts: we, meeting, our · What happens: meet, be, love · To what, where: meeting, sin
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.
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 | _ | 7 meet | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 meet | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 meet | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meet | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 meeting | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 meeting | cc |
| 10 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sin | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 sin | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sin | cop |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sin | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 earlier | advmod |
| 16 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 sin | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 been | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 been | mark |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 love | nmod:poss |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 been | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 been | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 sin | cop |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 sin | det |
| 24 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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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