The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 114
“The rowan branch is the sure omen that never fails.
Who acts: rowan branch, sure omen · What happens: be, not fail · To what, where: sure omen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rowan branch, sure omen), 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 | _ | 8 omen | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 branch | det |
| 3 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 branch | compound |
| 4 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 omen | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 omen | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 omen | det |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 omen | amod |
| 8 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fails | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 fails | advmod |
| 11 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 omen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 omen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the rowan branch | the sure omen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fail in a quote | present | the sure omen | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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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