The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 29
Did I not find Iron in his hiding places and subdue him?
Who acts: I · What happens: not find, subdue · To what, where: Iron, hiding places
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 places | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 places | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 places | compound |
| 9 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 subdue | cc |
| 11 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 subdue | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | past · do-support | I | Iron | Iron's hiding places | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Topic | |||
| 2 | subdue | infinitive | I not said here | Iron | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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