The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 97

Did you not say to him that you would richly reward the hero who should forge the magic Sampo—that you would give him your daughter, the Maid of Beauty, to be his wife?”

Who acts: you, hero · What happens: not say, reward, forge, give, be · To what, where: Master, hero, magic, Maid, wife · 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 (you, hero), 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 reward	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 reward	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 reward	aux
10	richly	richly	ADV	_	11 reward	advmod
11	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hero	det
13	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reward	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 forge	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forge	aux
16	forge	forge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hero	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 magic	det
18	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forge	obj
19	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 magic	appos
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 give	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	iobj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Maid	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Maid	det
30	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 give	iobj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Beauty	case
32	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Maid	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wife	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	37 wife	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 wife	cop
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	parataxis
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 wife	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	you		Master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	reward	would	you	the hero		richly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient
3	forge	should	the hero	the magic			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Product
4	give	would	you		the Maid of Beauty	Master iobj; your daughter iobj	tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive		Master's wife		Master nmod:poss	tree rules

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 97

The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 97