The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 140
But as for me—well, as you see, I have not won the Maid of Beauty.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, not win · To what, where: Maid
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 (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 won | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obl |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 me | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 won | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 won | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 won | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 won | advmod |
| 15 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Maid | det |
| 17 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 won | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Beauty | case |
| 19 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Maid | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 won | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | as me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as i=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not win | present · perfect | I | the Maid of Beauty | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality |
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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