The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 47
Of grain and fruit there is no end, and no man nor woman, child nor dog, knows the meaning of hunger.”
Who acts: end, man · What happens: be, know, mean · To what, where: meaning, hunger
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: who acts (end, man), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 grain | case |
| 2 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fruit | cc |
| 4 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grain | conj |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knows | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knows | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 woman | cc |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 child | punct |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 dog | cc |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 child | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 20 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 is | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meaning | det |
| 22 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knows | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hunger | case |
| 24 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meaning | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 knows | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no end | there | of grain and fruit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | no man nor woman and child nor dog | the meaning of hunger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | hunger | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=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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