The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 139
“My magic is not strong enough; my skill is not of the kind that forges mills of fortune.
Who acts: magic, skill, kind · What happens: not be, forge · To what, where: mills
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic, skill, kind), 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 | _ | 6 strong | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 magic | nmod:poss |
| 3 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strong | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 strong | advmod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 strong | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skill | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 kind | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kind | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strong | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 forges | nsubj |
| 17 | forges | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | acl:relcl |
| 18 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 forges | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fortune | case |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mills | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | My magic | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | my skill | of the kind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forge in a quote | present | the kind | mills of fortune | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Product |
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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