The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 122
“None but the prince of wizards could thus have come to Tuonela; and yet there is no magic strong enough to save you from your doom.”
Who acts: None, magic, your · What happens: come, be, save, doom · To what, where: Tuonela, you, doom
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 (None, magic, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 2 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 come | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 prince | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 None | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wizards | case |
| 7 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prince | nmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Tuonela | case |
| 13 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 is | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 is | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 magic | det |
| 20 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 magic | amod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 save | mark |
| 24 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strong | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 save | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 doom | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 doom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 save | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | could · perfect | None the prince of wizards | Tuonela | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tuonela=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | no magic | there | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | no magic not said here | you | your doom | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from doom=Source | |||
| 4 | doom in a quote | your | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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