The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 29
“No doubt the feats you name are easy,” said the Mistress; “but I shall require a harder one.
Who acts: you, doubt, Mistress · What happens: doubt, be, say, require · To what, where: harder one · 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 (you, doubt, Mistress), 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 | _ | 9 easy | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 doubt | det |
| 3 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feats | det |
| 5 | feats | feat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doubt | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 doubt | nsubj |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubt | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 easy | cop |
| 9 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 easy | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 easy | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mistress | det |
| 14 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 require | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 require | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 require | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 require | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 require | aux |
| 20 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 22 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 require | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt in a quote | you | the feats conj; name conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | no doubt and the feats and name | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | require in a quote | shall | the Mistress = mistress | a harder one | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition |
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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