The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 109
No barren spot nor stony space was left unturned, no blasted shrub nor baneful vine was unuprooted.
Who acts: blasted shrub · What happens: leave, blast, be · To what, where: barren spot
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: who acts (blasted shrub), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 spot | det |
| 2 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spot | amod |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 space | cc |
| 5 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 space | amod |
| 6 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spot | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | unturned | unturned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 left | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shrub | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 shrub | det |
| 12 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shrub | amod |
| 13 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unuprooted | nsubj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 vine | cc |
| 15 | baneful | baneful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vine | amod |
| 16 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shrub | conj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 unuprooted | cop |
| 18 | unuprooted | unuprooted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 left | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | no barren spot nor stony space | unturned property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blast | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | no blasted shrub nor baneful vine | unuprooted 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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