The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 126
“Never have I sought to harm you; but all that I did was for your own good.
Who acts: Minstrel, all · What happens: seek, harm, do, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, all), 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 | _ | 5 sought | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 harm | mark |
| 7 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sought | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 harm | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 good | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 good | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 did | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | cop |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 good | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 good | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sought | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek in a quote | present · perfect | the Minstrel = minstrel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | harm not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Minstrel = minstrel not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | the Minstrel = minstrel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | all | your nmod:poss; good property | 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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