The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 112

I am not a woman that I should say, ‘I cannot’; I am not a coward that I should say, ‘I dare not!’

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, say, not ', not dare · To what, where: woman, coward · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 woman	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 woman	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 say	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 woman	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ’	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 ’	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ’	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ’	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ’	advmod
15	’	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 coward	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 coward	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 coward	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 coward	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 coward	det
21	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woman	appos
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 say	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 say	aux
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 coward	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dare	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 dare	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 dare	nsubj
29	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 say	parataxis
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 dare	advmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 coward	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	a woman	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	should	I	a woman	tree rules
3	not '	can	I		tree rules
4	not is a	present	I	a coward	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	should	I	a coward	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
6	not dare	present	I		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 112