The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 133
No morsel of food will I taste until I have made known the business that brings me hither.”
Who acts: morsel, I, business · What happens: taste, make, know, bring · To what, where: business, me
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morsel, I, business), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 morsel | det |
| 2 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morsel | nmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 taste | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 taste | nsubj |
| 7 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 taste | ccomp |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 business | det |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 brings | nsubj |
| 16 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 business | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 brings | obj |
| 18 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 16 brings | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taste | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | no morsel of food | I nsubj | vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | I not said here | the business | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | the business | me | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/14/133/