The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 93
But, when my work was almost finished, lo! my tools failed me.
Who acts: tools, my · What happens: finish, fail, work · To what, where: work, me
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 (tools, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 finished | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finished | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 finished | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux:pass |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 finished | advmod |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 failed | punct |
| 10 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 14 failed | discourse |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 lo | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tools | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 failed | nsubj |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 failed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | my work | almost property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fail | past | my tools | me | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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