The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 12
As you know, it is not the habit of minstrels to carry weapons, and I have neither spear nor club.
Who acts: you, way, I · What happens: know, not be, carry, have · To what, where: habit, weapons, spear
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, way, I), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 know | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 habit | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 habit | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 habit | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 habit | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 habit | det |
| 9 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 minstrels | case |
| 11 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 habit | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carry | mark |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 minstrels | acl |
| 14 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 habit | conj |
| 19 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 spear | det |
| 20 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 club | cc |
| 22 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spear | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | way | the habit | of minstrels | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | way not said here | weapons | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | neither spear nor club | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=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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