The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 105
You love evil, and I will have no part nor parcel of you,” and he broke the ship into a thousand pieces, and threw the fragments back into the caldron.
Who acts: You, I, Smith · What happens: love, have, break, throw back · To what, where: evil, part, ship, thousand pieces, fragments, caldron
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, Smith), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 love | parataxis |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 parcel | cc |
| 12 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 parcel | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broke | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 broke | nsubj |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 broke | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 thousand | det |
| 24 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 broke | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 threw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 threw | cc |
| 28 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 broke | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fragments | det |
| 30 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 threw | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 threw | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 caldron | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 caldron | det |
| 34 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threw | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | You | evil | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | future | I | no part nor parcel of you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 3 | break in a quote | past | Smith | the ship | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent ship=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 4 | throw back in a quote | past | Smith not said here | the fragments | into the caldron result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fragment=Theme into caldron=Result |
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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