The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 24

What shall we do when we are hungry and there are no nuts to be gathered, no roots to be digged, no small beasts to be captured, no food of any kind?

Who acts: we, nuts · What happens: do, be, gather, digg, capture · To what, where: roots

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 (we, nuts), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 hungry	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hungry	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 are	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 nuts	det
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 gathered	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 gathered	aux:pass
16	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 are	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 roots	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 roots	det
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 digged	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 digged	aux:pass
22	digged	digg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 roots	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 beasts	punct
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 beasts	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beasts	amod
26	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 roots	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 captured	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 captured	aux:pass
29	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 beasts	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 food	punct
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 food	det
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roots	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 kind	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 kind	det
35	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 food	nmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	shall	we	no roots and no small beasts and no food of any kind		What obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	present	we			hungry property	tree rules
3	does	present	no nuts		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	gather	to-infinitive · passive	no nuts not said here				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»
5	digg	to-infinitive · passive	we not said here	no roots and no small beasts and no food of any kind not said here			tree rules
6	capture	to-infinitive · passive	we not said here				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 24