The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 50
Would not magic avail him?
What happens: not magic, avail · To what, where: Ilmarinen
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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 magic | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 magic | advmod |
| 3 | magic | magic | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 magic | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 avail | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 magic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not magic | would | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | avail | infinitive | Ilmarinen | 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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