The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 11
Who would not have trembled in the presence of such marvellous beauty?
What happens: not tremble · To what, where: presence
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 trembled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 trembled | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 trembled | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trembled | aux |
| 5 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 presence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presence | det |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trembled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beauty | amod |
| 11 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beauty | amod |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tremble | would · perfect · passive | the presence of such marvellous beauty | Who nsubj:pass | tree rules |
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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