The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 25
“But this task is different,” responded the Mistress, “and if you fail your life is endangered.”
Who acts: task, different, you · What happens: be, respond, fail · To what, where: Mistress, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (task, different, you), 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 | _ | 6 different | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 different | cc |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 task | det |
| 4 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 different | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 different | cop |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 responded | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 different | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 different | punct |
| 9 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mistress | det |
| 11 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 endangered | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 endangered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 endangered | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 fail | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fail | nsubj |
| 17 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 endangered | advcl |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fail | obj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 endangered | cop |
| 21 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 responded | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 endangered | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this task | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | different | the Mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | your life | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | endangered 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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