The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 163
Can we believe that in the present story we have a faint reminiscence of that very ancient time?
Who acts: we, ancient time · What happens: believe, have, reminisce · To what, where: faint reminiscence, present story · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (we, ancient time), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reminiscence | det |
| 12 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reminiscence | amod |
| 13 | reminiscence | reminiscence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ancient | advmod |
| 17 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reminiscence | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | we | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | a faint reminiscence of that ancient time | the present story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reminiscence=Patient | |||
| 3 | reminisce | that ancient time | nom reminiscence «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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