The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 99
Not one of you has the skill to coax it forth from its lurking-place.
Who acts: one · What happens: have, coax · To what, where: skill, lurking place
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: who acts (one), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skill | det |
| 7 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 coax | mark |
| 9 | coax | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 skill | acl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 coax | obj |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 coax | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lurking | lurking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 lurking | punct |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coax | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | one of you | the skill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | coax | to-infinitive | one of you not said here | skill | skill's lurking place | forth property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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