The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 122
Never can my task be finished unless I can find the three words of power that are lacking.
Who acts: I, power, my · What happens: not finish, find, lack, task, word · To what, where: task, three words, power
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, power, my), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 finished | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 task | nmod:poss |
| 4 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 finished | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 words | nummod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lacking | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lacking | aux |
| 18 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 power | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not finish | can · passive | my task | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | I | the three words of power | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lack | present · progressive | power | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | task | my | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | power | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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