The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 51
Could he not call upon the winds to carry him, as they had once done against his will?
Who acts: Ilmarinen, winds · What happens: not call, carry, do · To what, where: Ilmarinen · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Ilmarinen, winds), 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 call | advmod |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 winds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 winds | det |
| 7 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 call | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 done | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 done | advmod |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 call | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 will | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 will | nmod:poss |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | advcl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call | could | Ilmarinen | upon the winds | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | Ilmarinen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | winds = wind | once property | vn act-114-1 «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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