The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 77
But such a task could not be done in a moment.
What happens: not do · To what, where: task
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 done | cc |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 task | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 task | det |
| 4 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 done | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could · passive | such task | moment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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