The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 50
Why is it that you, the prince of wizards, cannot find some way to bless and save our own kinsmen, our own people?”
Who acts: Land, you · What happens: be, not find, bless, save · To what, where: way, own kinsmen
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 (Land, you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 you | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prince | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 you | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wizards | case |
| 10 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prince | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 find | advmod |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bless | mark |
| 18 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | acl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 save | cc |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bless | conj |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kinsmen | amod |
| 23 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 save | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 people | punct |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 people | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 people | amod |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Land | that you; the prince of wizards appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | can | you | some way | our own people obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | bless | to-infinitive | you not said here | some way not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | you not said here | our own kinsmen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kinsman=Theme |
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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