The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 98

I hope we shall make edges that will cut and not be dulled so easily.”

Who acts: I, we, edges · What happens: hope, make, cut, not dull · To what, where: edges · 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 (I, we, edges), 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	2 hope	nsubj
2	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hope	ccomp
6	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cut	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 edges	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dulled	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 dulled	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dulled	aux:pass
13	dulled	dull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cut	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 easily	advmod
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 cut	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hope	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 hope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	present	I			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make	shall	we	edges		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Product
3	cut	future	edges		easily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	not dull	infinitive · passive	edges not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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 98

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 98