The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 44
Your friend, the Minstrel, although he was able to do many very wonderful things, would not undertake a task so difficult.”
Who acts: various, friend · What happens: be, do, not undertake · To what, where: many wonderful things, task
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (various, friend), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 undertake | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Minstrel | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Minstrel | det |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 7 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friend | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 wonderful | advmod |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 undertake | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 undertake | advmod |
| 20 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 task | det |
| 22 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 undertake | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 difficult | advmod |
| 24 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 undertake | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 undertake | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | various | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | various not said here | many wonderful things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not undertake | would | Your friend | a task | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «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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