The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 154
“Never yet have I failed to do that which I have agreed to do.”
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: not have, fail, not do, agree, do · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Minstrel), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 failed | nsubj |
| 6 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 failed | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 agreed | nsubj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 agreed | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 agreed | aux |
| 13 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 do | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 agreed | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | yet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fail in a quote | past | the Minstrel = minstrel | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | to-infinitive | the Minstrel = minstrel not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | which nsubj:pass; I nsubj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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