The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 103
I cannot give her away as a reward or prize—she does not belong to me.
Who acts: I, Maid · What happens: not give, not belong · To what, where: Maid, me
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Maid), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 reward | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reward | det |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 prize | cc |
| 11 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reward | conj |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 belong | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 belong | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 belong | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 belong | advmod |
| 16 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 belong | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | can | I | Maid | away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | not belong | present · do-support | Maid | me | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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