The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 42
Have they a famine there also?”
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. 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 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 famine | det |
| 4 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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