The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 13

You need not inquire the way nor ask about the road—you cannot fail to find it; and sooner or later you must walk in it, whether you wish or not.

Who acts: You · What happens: not inquire, ask, not fail, find, walk, wish · To what, where: way, road

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	4 inquire	nsubj
2	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 inquire	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 inquire	advmod
4	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inquire	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 ask	cc
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inquire	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 fail	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fail	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fail	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fail	advmod
16	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inquire	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fail	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 walk	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sooner	cc
22	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 walk	advmod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 later	cc
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 sooner	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 walk	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 walk	aux
27	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inquire	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walk	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wish	punct
31	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 wish	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
33	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 walk	conj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 not	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 wish	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 inquire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not inquire speech: other	present	You	the way			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	You not said here			about the road	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about road=Topic
3	not fail	can	you				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	walk	must	you		road	soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory
6	wish	present	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 13