Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 46
How willingly every poor person in the town would contribute, if thereby the edifice could only be completed.
Who acts: poor person · What happens: contribute, complete · To what, where: edifice
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 (poor person), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 willingly | advmod |
| 2 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 10 contribute | advmod |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 person | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contribute | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 person | nmod |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 contribute | aux |
| 10 | contribute | contribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 completed | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 completed | mark |
| 13 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 15 edifice | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edifice | det |
| 15 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 completed | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 completed | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 completed | aux:pass |
| 19 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 contribute | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 contribute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contribute | would | every poor person in the town | willingly property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | complete a condition, not said to happen | could · passive | the edifice | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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