The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 57
“If only we might bring it to our own country, how quickly we could save our people!”
Who acts: we · What happens: bring, save · To what, where: lid, own country, people
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 (we), 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 | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 save | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 quickly | advmod |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 save | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 save | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 save | aux |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bring | conj |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 save | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | might | we | lid | our own country | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 2 | save in a quote | could | we | our people | quickly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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