The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 119
I could fuse the hills together with it if I had the mind to try.”
Who acts: I · What happens: fuse, have, try · To what, where: hills, mind
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fuse | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fuse | aux |
| 3 | fuse | fuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hills | det |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fuse | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 fuse | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fuse | obl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fuse | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mind | det |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 try | mark |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mind | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fuse | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fuse | could | I | the hills | with salve; together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hill=Patient with it=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | I not said here | the mind not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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