The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 62
But the weavers of his fate had decided against him; it was not for him to prevail.
Who acts: fate, master · What happens: decide, not be, fate · To what, where: weavers · 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 (fate, master), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 decided | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weavers | det |
| 3 | weavers | weaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fate | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fate | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weavers | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 decided | aux |
| 8 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 decided | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 prevail | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prevail | nsubj:outer |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 prevail | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 prevail | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 prevail | mark |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prevail | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 prevail | mark |
| 18 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 decided | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect · passive | the weavers of master's fate | against master | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is not said to happen | past | fate | master nsubj; prevail property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fate | master | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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