The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 91
I am now waiting only for my reward—for the prize which you promised.”
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: wait, promise, reward · To what, where: prize
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, you, my), 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 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 waiting | advmod |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 reward | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 reward | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 reward | nmod:poss |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 prize | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 prize | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prize | det |
| 12 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 promised | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prize | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | I | now | for my reward; for the prize | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | you | the prize | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reward | my | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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