The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 64
But it must not be undertaken in the winter time.
What happens: not undertake · To what, where: sky
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 undertaken | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 undertaken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 undertaken | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 undertaken | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 undertaken | aux:pass |
| 6 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | compound |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 undertaken | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 undertaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not undertake | must · passive | sky | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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