The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 65
He has sent me to this dreary Frozen Land to do a task too great for his skill, too wonderful for his magic.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: send, do · To what, where: me, dreary, task
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dreary | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 dreary | det |
| 7 | dreary | dreary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dreary | appos |
| 9 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Frozen | flat |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 task | amod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 skill | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 skill | nmod:poss |
| 18 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 great | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wonderful | punct |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 wonderful | advmod |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skill | amod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 magic | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 magic | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wonderful | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | Wainamoinen | me | this dreary | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to dreary=Destination | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | a task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
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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