The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 12
You may arrive there quickly, in a day, in an hour, perhaps even in the twinkling of an eye—and quite before you expect to do so.
Who acts: You · What happens: arrive, expect, do · To what, where: twinkling
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 arrive | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrive | aux |
| 3 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 arrive | advmod |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 arrive | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrive | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hour | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hour | det |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrive | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 twinkling | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 twinkling | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 twinkling | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 twinkling | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 twinkling | det |
| 19 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrive | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 eye | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 eye | det |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twinkling | nmod |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrive | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 expect | cc |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 expect | advmod |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 expect | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 expect | nsubj |
| 28 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrive | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 expect | xcomp |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 do | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | may | You | the twinkling of a eye; there | day; hour | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | expect | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | 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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