The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 109
He was conquered, and well he knew the folly of trying further to deceive her.
Who acts: fish, folly · What happens: conquer, know, try, deceive · To what, where: fish, folly, girl
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, folly), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 conquered | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conquered | aux:pass |
| 3 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 knew | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conquered | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 folly | det |
| 10 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 trying | mark |
| 12 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 folly | acl |
| 13 | further | further | ADV | _ | 12 trying | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 deceive | mark |
| 15 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deceive | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past · passive | fish | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know | past | fish | the folly | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer folly=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | try | gerund | the folly not said here | further property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | the folly not said here | girl | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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