The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 72
No man can tell; for none can know whether Tuonela be in this place or in that, whether it is one day’s journey distant or an hundred.
Who acts: man, none, Tuonela, river, one day · What happens: tell, know, be, journey · To what, where: place, one · 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 (man, none, Tuonela, river), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 place | mark |
| 11 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 that | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 distant | punct |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 27 distant | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 one | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | cop |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | nummod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 journey | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 day | case |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 distant | nsubj |
| 27 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 hundred | cc |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hundred | det |
| 30 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 distant | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | no man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | can | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | Tuonela | this place | that conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | river | one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | journey | one day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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