The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 88

The Smith answered her gently, politely, as men should always answer women: “Have I not forged the Sampo for you—the wondrous Sampo which you so much desired?

Who acts: Smith, men · What happens: answer, have, not forge, desire · To what, where: women, Sampo, wondrous Sampo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Smith, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Smith	det
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gently	nmod:poss
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 answered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 politely	punct
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	3 answered	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answer	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 answer	mark
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 answer	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 answer	aux
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 answer	advmod
13	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 answer	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Have	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Have	punct
17	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 forged	nsubj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 forged	advmod
20	forged	forge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Have	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Sampo	det
22	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 forged	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 forged	obl
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 desired	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sampo	det
27	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Sampo	amod
28	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 desired	nsubj:pass
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 desired	nsubj:pass
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 desired	nsubj:pass
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 desired	advmod
33	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Have	conj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: ask	past	the Smith			gently, politely property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	should	men		women	always property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
3	have in a quote	present					tree rules
4	not forge in a quote	past	the Smith = smith	the Sampo		for you	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for you=Beneficiary
5	desire in a quote	participle · passive		the wondrous Sampo		which nsubj:pass; you nsubj:pass	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 88