The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 34
Hundreds of brave fishermen have sought to snare him, but not one has lived to tell his story.
Who acts: one · What happens: seek, snare, live, tell · To what, where: Hundreds, pike, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one), 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fishermen | case |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fishermen | amod |
| 4 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sought | aux |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 snare | mark |
| 8 | snare | snare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 snare | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lived | aux |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sought | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lived | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 story | nmod:poss |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · passive | Hundreds of brave fishermen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | snare not said to happen | to-infinitive | pike | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present · perfect | one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | one not said here | pike's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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