The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 65
You cannot fail to distinguish the noble hero.”
Who acts: You · What happens: not fail, distinguish · To what, where: noble hero
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: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fail | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fail | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fail | advmod |
| 4 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 distinguish | mark |
| 6 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fail | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hero | det |
| 8 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hero | amod |
| 9 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distinguish | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | can | You | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | distinguish | to-infinitive | You not said here | the noble hero | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute hero=Theme |
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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