The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 80

Then, indeed, would the hero have met his death had not the eagle saved him.

Who acts: hero, death, eagle · What happens: meet, have, not save, die · To what, where: death

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 (hero, death, eagle), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 met	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 met	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 met	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 met	aux
9	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 death	nmod:poss
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 met	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 saved	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eagle	det
15	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saved	nsubj
16	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saved	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	would · perfect	the hero		then	indeed property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	hero's death				tree rules
3	not save	past	the eagle	death			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	die		hero				nom death «event intransitive»: 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 80