The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 90
“It will not be my fault if he doesn’t come out of it clean.”
Who acts: bath, brother · What happens: not be, not come out · To what, where: fault
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bath, brother), 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 | _ | 7 fault | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fault | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fault | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fault | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fault | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fault | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fault | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 come | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fault | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | future | bath | my fault | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not come out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | brother | of bath; clean, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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