The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 10
“What more can we do to make the land fit for men to dwell in?” asked the eldest of the sisters.
Who acts: we, land · What happens: do, make, fit, dwell, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, land), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 What | amod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fit | nsubj |
| 11 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fit | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 dwell | mark |
| 15 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fit | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dwell | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eldest | det |
| 21 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sisters | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sisters | det |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eldest | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | we | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fit in a quote | present | the land | for men | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dwell in a quote | to-infinitive | the land not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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