The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 26
And having done this, what would be easier than to make her his own?
What happens: do, be, make · To what, where: this, Land
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 done | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 easier | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 easier | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 easier | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 easier | cop |
| 9 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 done | parataxis |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 easier | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund · perfect | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | would | what nsubj; easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Land | own property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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