The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 38
Some men would have given up in despair, but not so Ilmarinen.
What happens: give up · To what, where: men, despair
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 given | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 despair | case |
| 8 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ilmarinen | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 Ilmarinen | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 Ilmarinen | advmod |
| 13 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | would · perfect · passive | some men | despair | Ilmarinen obl | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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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