The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 155
The story-teller has not attempted to follow the poetical account closely.
What happens: not attempt, not follow · To what, where: story teller, poetical account
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teller | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teller | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 4 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attempted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 attempted | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 attempted | advmod |
| 7 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attempted | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 account | det |
| 11 | poetical | poetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 account | amod |
| 12 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 follow | obj |
| 13 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 follow | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attempt | present · perfect · passive | the story teller | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not follow | to-infinitive | the poetical account | closely property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=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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