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title: How willingly every poor person in the town would contribute, if the… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: How willingly every poor person in the town would contribute, if thereby the edifice could only be completed. Who acts: poor person. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 46

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How willingly every poor person in the town would contribute, if thereby the edifice could only be completed.

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**Who acts:** poor person · **What happens:** contribute, complete · **To what, where:** edifice

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:24:46
# text = How willingly every poor person in the town would contribute, if thereby the edifice could only be completed.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	contribute	contribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	edifice	edifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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