The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 10
She would have swooned had not pride prevented.
What happens: swoon, have, prevent · To what, where: life, pride
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swooned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swooned | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swooned | aux |
| 4 | swooned | swoon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 prevented | parataxis |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pride | advmod |
| 7 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swooned | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swooned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoon | would · perfect · passive | life | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | participle | pride | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient | |||||
| 3 | prevent | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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