The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 94
“Be it war or be it peace, I must hasten and warn the Mistress.”
Who acts: war, faithful man · What happens: be, hasten, warn · To what, where: war, peace, Mistress
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 (war, faithful man), 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 war | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 war | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Be | obj |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peace | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 be | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 peace | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 be | obj |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hasten | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hasten | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hasten | aux |
| 12 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 peace | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 warn | cc |
| 14 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hasten | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mistress | det |
| 16 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warn | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 peace | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 peace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | war | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | war | peace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten in a quote | must | the faithful man = man | peace not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn in a quote | infinitive | the faithful man = man not said here | the Mistress | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient |
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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