The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 90
All that I can ever do in this Frozen Land is to sigh and weep; and I shall sigh and weep till my eyes are out and my voice is gone forever.”
Who acts: I, All, eyes, voice · What happens: do, be, weep, sigh · To what, where: Frozen Land
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 (I, All, eyes, voice), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sigh | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Land | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Land | nsubj |
| 9 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | compound |
| 10 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sigh | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sigh | mark |
| 13 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weep | cc |
| 15 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sigh | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sigh | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sigh | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sigh | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sigh | aux |
| 20 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sigh | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weep | cc |
| 22 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sigh | conj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 out | mark |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 out | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 out | cop |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 weep | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gone | cc |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gone | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 gone | cop |
| 32 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sigh | conj |
| 33 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 32 gone | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sigh | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | Frozen Land this | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | All | sigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep | infinitive | All not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sigh | shall | I | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | weep | infinitive | I not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | my eyes | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | my voice | forever, gone property | 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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