The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 136
You do not know how to discriminate between the evil and the good.
Who acts: You · What happens: not know, discriminate · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 discriminate | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 discriminate | mark |
| 7 | discriminate | discriminate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 evil | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evil | det |
| 10 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discriminate | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 good | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 good | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 evil | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | discriminate | to-infinitive | between the evil | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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