The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 12

For without tools man will not be able to plough, to reap, or to build; and without weapons he cannot defend himself against the savage beasts of the forest.”

Who acts: man, youngest · What happens: not be, plough, reap, build, not defend · To what, where: youngest

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 (man, youngest), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 tools	case
2	without	without	ADP	_	1 For	fixed
3	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 able	obl
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 able	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 able	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 able	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 plough	mark
10	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reap	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reap	mark
13	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 plough	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 build	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 build	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 build	mark
17	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 reap	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 defend	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 defend	cc
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 weapons	case
21	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 defend	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 defend	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 defend	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 defend	advmod
25	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 defend	obj
27	against	against	ADP	_	30 beasts	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 beasts	det
29	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beasts	amod
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 defend	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 forest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 forest	det
33	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beasts	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 able	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	future	man		for tools; able property	tree rules
2	plough	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	reap	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	build	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not defend	can	youngest = young	youngest = young	without weapons; against the savage beasts of the forest	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary against beast=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 12