The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 44

Vainly have I lived, vain have been all my valiant deeds, vain indeed is life with all its empty victories; there is naught that is worth the doing.”

Who acts: I, naught · What happens: have, live, be, do · To what, where: valiant deeds, vain life

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, naught), 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	Vainly	vainly	ADV	_	2 have	advmod
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 vain	punct
6	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	xcomp
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 vain	ccomp
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 deeds	cop
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 deeds	det:predet
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 deeds	nmod:poss
11	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deeds	amod
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vain	punct
14	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 life	amod
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 vain	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 life	cop
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deeds	nmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 victories	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 victories	det:predet
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 victories	nmod:poss
21	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 victories	amod
22	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 life	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
26	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 is	nsubj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 worth	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 worth	cop
29	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 naught	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 doing	det
31	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 worth	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present				vain, vainly property	tree rules
2	live	past	I				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	participle		my valiant deeds		my nmod:poss	tree rules
5	is a	present		vain life		with life's empty victories	tree rules
6	be	present	naught		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present				worth property	tree rules
8	do	gerund					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 44