The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 99
“But a promise is a promise,” gently returned the Smith; “and so I demand of you to fulfil it.”
Who acts: promise, Mistress · What happens: be, return, demand, fulfil · To what, where: promise, Smith
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 (promise, Mistress), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 promise | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 promise | det |
| 4 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 promise | det |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
| 10 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 11 returned | advmod |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Smith | det |
| 13 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 demand | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 demand | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 demand | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 demand | nsubj |
| 19 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 returned | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 demand | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fulfil | mark |
| 23 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 demand | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fulfil | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a promise | a promise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the Smith | gently property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Theme | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request in a quote | present | the Mistress = mistress | of you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fulfil in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mistress = mistress not said here | promise | 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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