The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 12
No finer beef was ever fattened; no nobler beast was ever butchered.”
What happens: fatten, butcher · To what, where: finer beef, nobler beast
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 beef | det |
| 2 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 beef | amod |
| 3 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fattened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fattened | aux:pass |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 fattened | advmod |
| 6 | fattened | fatten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 butchered | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 beast | det |
| 9 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 beast | amod |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 butchered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 butchered | aux:pass |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 butchered | advmod |
| 13 | butchered | butcher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fattened | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fattened | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fattened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fatten | past · passive | no finer beef | ever | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | butcher | past · passive | no nobler beast | ever | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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