The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 83
Let us see if the door is wide enough for him to pass through; let us see if it is high enough to admit so great a hero.”
Who acts: you, us, door, bridegroom, hat · What happens: let, see, be, pass through, admit · To what, where: us, great 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, us, door, bridegroom), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 wide | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wide | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wide | cop |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | ccomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 wide | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 pass | mark |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pass | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pass | mark |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wide | advcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 pass | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 high | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 high | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 high | cop |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 high | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 admit | mark |
| 25 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 high | advcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 great | advmod |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hero | amod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hero | det |
| 29 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 admit | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the door | enough, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass through | to-infinitive | bridegroom | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | hat | enough, high property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | hat not said here | a great hero | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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