The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 25
“Never yet was pike slain by idle words.
What happens: be, slay · To what, where: pike
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 pike | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 yet | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 pike | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pike | cop |
| 5 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pike | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slain | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | pike | yet; never | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay in a quote | participle | pike not said here | by idle words | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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