The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 17
“No man, whether hero or slave, shall ever recross our river to tell his friends and countrymen how matters fare on this side of the stream.”
Who acts: man, matters · What happens: recross, tell, fare · To what, where: river, friends, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, matters), 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 | _ | 12 recross | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recross | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hero | punct |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 hero | mark |
| 6 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 slave | cc |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 recross | aux |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 recross | advmod |
| 12 | recross | recross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 river | nmod:poss |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recross | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 recross | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 countrymen | cc |
| 20 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 friends | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 fare | advmod |
| 22 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fare | nsubj |
| 23 | fare | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 side | det |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fare | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 stream | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stream | det |
| 29 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 side | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 recross | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 recross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recross in a quote | shall | no man and hero or slave | our river | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | no man and hero or slave not said here | man's friends and countrymen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fare in a quote | present | matters | this side of the stream | tree rules |
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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