The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 35
How, then, would it be possible for a living man, a breathing hero, to escape through this wall of nets so closely woven and so cunningly spread?
Who acts: fish · What happens: be, escape, weave, spread · To what, where: wall
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 (fish), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 then | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 possible | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 possible | punct |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 possible | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 possible | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 possible | cop |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possible | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hero | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hero | det |
| 15 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hero | compound |
| 16 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 escape | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 escape | mark |
| 19 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 possible | parataxis |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 wall | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 escape | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 nets | case |
| 24 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wall | nmod |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 woven | advmod |
| 26 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 27 woven | advmod |
| 27 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 escape | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cunningly | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 cunningly | advmod |
| 30 | cunningly | cunningly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 possible | conj |
| 31 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cunningly | xcomp |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | fish | then | for a living man and a breathing hero; possible property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | this wall of nets | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wall=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | weave | participle | closely property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | fish not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | spread | participle | fish not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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