The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 7
My mother, Lokka, will welcome you; she will serve you and prepare toothsome victuals for your meals.
Who acts: mother · What happens: welcome, serve, prepare · To what, where: you, toothsome victuals
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lokka | punct |
| 4 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mother | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 welcome | aux |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 welcome | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 serve | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 serve | aux |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 welcome | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prepare | cc |
| 15 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 serve | conj |
| 16 | toothsome | toothsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 victuals | amod |
| 17 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prepare | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 meals | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 meals | nmod:poss |
| 20 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prepare | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | future | My mother | you | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serve | future | mother | you | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | prepare | infinitive | mother not said here | toothsome victuals | for your meals | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent victual=Product for meal=Beneficiary |
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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