The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 164
If you should gaze towards the mountain top or the sky, sad misfortune will befall you.
Who acts: you, sad misfortune · What happens: gaze, befall · To what, where: you
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 (you, sad misfortune), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 gaze | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gaze | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 gaze | aux |
| 4 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 befall | advcl |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | compound |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gaze | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 sky | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gaze | punct |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 misfortune | amod |
| 14 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 befall | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 befall | aux |
| 16 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 befall | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 befall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze a condition, not said to happen | should | you | towards the mountain top or the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | befall | future | sad misfortune | you | tree rules |
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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