The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 119
Alas, that one so wickedly inclined should be blessed with so beautiful a form!”
What happens: incline, bless · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 10 blessed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blessed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 inclined | advmod |
| 6 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 7 inclined | advmod |
| 7 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 blessed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 blessed | aux:pass |
| 10 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 beautiful | case |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blessed | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 form | det |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beautiful | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 blessed | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | participle | that one not said here | wickedly property | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bless | should · passive | that one | beautiful property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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