The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 43
For how can any one, without net or tackle, catch and subdue the Great Pike? and how can I hope to drag him from the sluggish water and bring his head hither to the Mistress of Pohyola?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: any, catch, subdue, hope, drag, bring · To what, where: one, Great Pike, pike, sluggish water, head, Mistress
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 (you, 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 any | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 any | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 any | aux |
| 4 | any | any | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 catch | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 any | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 net | punct |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 net | case |
| 8 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 any | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 tackle | cc |
| 10 | tackle | tackle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 net | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 catch | punct |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 subdue | cc |
| 14 | subdue | subdue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 catch | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Pike | det |
| 16 | Great | Great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Pike | amod |
| 17 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 subdue | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 catch | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hope | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 hope | advmod |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hope | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hope | nsubj |
| 23 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 catch | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 drag | mark |
| 25 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hope | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drag | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 29 | sluggish | sluggish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 water | amod |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drag | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bring | cc |
| 32 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 drag | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bring | obj |
| 35 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 32 bring | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Mistress | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Mistress | det |
| 38 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bring | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Pohyola | case |
| 40 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Mistress | nmod |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | any | can | you not said here | one | without net or tackle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | imperative | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | subdue | infinitive | you not said here | the Great Pike | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hope | can | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drag not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | pike | the sluggish water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from water=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | bring | infinitive | I not said here | pike's head | the Mistress of Pohyola | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to mistress=Destination |
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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