The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 74
“Your task is very hard,” he said, “and I am the only person under the sun who can perform it.
Who acts: task, Wainamoinen, sun, Your · What happens: be, say, perform, task · To what, where: only person, sun, task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, Wainamoinen, sun, Your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 task | nmod:poss |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hard | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hard | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 person | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 person | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 person | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 person | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 person | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 sun | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 person | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 perform | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 perform | aux |
| 24 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sun | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 perform | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Your task | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wainamoinen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Wainamoinen | the only person | the sun | tree rules | |||
| 4 | perform in a quote | can | the sun | task | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | task in a quote | Your | nom task «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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