Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 21

But we would gladly, though invisible, help him to cultivate the land during the hours when we have a form, if he would take pity and spare the last of a great race."

Who acts: race, we · What happens: help, cultivate, have, take, spare · To what, where: race, land, form, pity, last

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 (race, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 would	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 would	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 help	aux
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	3 would	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 invisible	mark
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 help	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 invisible	punct
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 help	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cultivate	mark
12	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cultivate	obj
15	during	during	ADP	_	17 hours	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hours	det
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cultivate	obl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 have	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cultivate	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 form	det
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 take	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	parataxis
28	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spare	cc
30	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 last	det
32	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spare	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 race	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 race	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 race	amod
36	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 last	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	help	would		race		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	cultivate	to-infinitive	race not said here	the land	hour	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Product
3	have	present	we	a form		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
4	take a condition, not said to happen	would	race	pity		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme
5	spare	infinitive	race not said here	the last of a great race		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent last=Asset

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 21