The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 30
“The way is long, the paths are rough, the journey cannot be made on foot.
Who acts: way, paths · What happens: be, not make · To what, where: journey, foot
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 (way, paths), 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 | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rough | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 paths | det |
| 8 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rough | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rough | cop |
| 10 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 made | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 long | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the paths | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | can · passive | the journey | foot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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