The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 38
“If my friend, the Smith, will not be persuaded, I will prevail upon him through other means.”
Who acts: Minstrel, other · What happens: not persuade, prevail, mean · To what, where: friend
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, other), 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 | _ | 16 prevail | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 persuaded | mark |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 persuaded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Smith | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Smith | det |
| 7 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 persuaded | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 persuaded | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 12 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 prevail | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 persuaded | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 prevail | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 prevail | aux |
| 16 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prevail | obl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 means | case |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | nsubj |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 prevail | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 prevail | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 prevail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not persuade a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future · passive | my friend | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | prevail in a quote | future | the Minstrel = minstrel | upon friend | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | other | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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