The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 19
“My cunning may detain him for a while; Tuoni may hold him for a season; but it is not given to us to destroy him.
Who acts: cunning, Tuoni · What happens: detain, hold, not give, destroy · To what, where: man, cunning, us
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 (cunning, Tuoni), 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 | _ | 5 detain | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cunning | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detain | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 detain | aux |
| 5 | detain | detain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 detain | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 while | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 while | det |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detain | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 11 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 detain | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 season | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 season | det |
| 17 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 given | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 given | advmod |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hold | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 given | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 destroy | mark |
| 27 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 given | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 destroy | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 detain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detain in a quote | may | My cunning | man | while | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold in a quote | may | Tuoni | man | season | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | not give in a quote | present · passive | cunning | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | to-infinitive | man | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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