The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 24
To-morrow—but who knows what may happen to-morrow?”
What happens: know, happen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knows | obl |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 knows | cc |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 knows | nsubj |
| 7 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knows | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 morrow | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happen | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | to morrow; who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | may | to morrow; what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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