The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 76
“Who now will say that nothing can be made of fish-bones?
What happens: say, make · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 say | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 say | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 say | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bones | case |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bones | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fish | punct |
| 14 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask in a quote | future | now | Who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | can · passive | nothing | of fish bones | 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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