The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 140
Groaning will not preserve you from evil, nor will grunting dispel misfortune.”
What happens: groan, not preserve, grunt, dispel · To what, where: you, misfortune
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. 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 | Groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 preserve | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 preserve | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 preserve | advmod |
| 4 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 preserve | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 evil | case |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 preserve | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grunting | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 grunting | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 grunting | aux |
| 11 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 evil | conj |
| 12 | dispel | dispel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 grunting | xcomp |
| 13 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dispel | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 preserve | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 preserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not preserve | future | you | from evil | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary from evil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grunt | future | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | dispel | infinitive | misfortune | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent misfortune=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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