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title: May help be as near every one who sings it as to thee; for know, tho… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: May help be as near every one who sings it as to thee; for know, thou art come at a most happy hour. Who acts: you, one, thou. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 102

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May help be as near every one who sings it as to thee; for know, thou art come at a most happy hour.

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**Who acts:** you, one, thou · **What happens:** help, be, sing, come · **To what, where:** troubled

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, thou), 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:pg74323:10:103
# text = May help be as near every one who sings it as to thee; for know, thou art come at a most happy hour.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	TO	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	know	know	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
19	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | may | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near every one | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | every one | troubled |  |  |  | as thee | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present · passive | thou |  |  |  | hour | for know | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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