The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 12
“If he has not lost any of them he shall have a good supper to-night.”
Who acts: boy · What happens: not lose, have · To what, where: any, good supper
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 lost | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lost | advmod |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 have | advcl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 lost | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 any | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 supper | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 supper | amod |
| 15 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supper | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | boy | any of cows | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | shall | boy | a good supper | to night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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