The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 10
“Who would believe that for the lack of only three words thou shouldst lie here forever, unnoticed, unfinished, forgotten?
Who acts: thou · What happens: believe, lie, forget, lack · To what, where: three words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 lie | mark |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 lack | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lack | det |
| 8 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lie | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 three | advmod |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 words | nummod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lack | nmod |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 lie | nsubj |
| 14 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 lie | aux |
| 15 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lie | advmod |
| 17 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 15 lie | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unnoticed | punct |
| 19 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unfinished | punct |
| 21 | unfinished | unfinished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 unnoticed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgotten | punct |
| 23 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 unnoticed | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | would | Who nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | should | thou | here | for the lack of three words; forever property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | forget in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lack in a quote | three words | nom lack «state transitive»: of=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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