The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 51
It is strange that you should have lived so long without becoming acquainted with this mighty power.”
Who acts: life, you · What happens: be, live, become
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 (life, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lived | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lived | aux |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 strange | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 lived | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 becoming | mark |
| 12 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lived | advcl |
| 13 | acquainted | acquainted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 becoming | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 power | det |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 becoming | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | life | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | should · perfect | you | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | gerund | you not said here | with this mighty power; acquainted property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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