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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 89

So he answered her truthfully and half-ashamed: “I pray you, pardon the slippings of my tongue, for my heart does not lend itself to falsehood.

Who acts: Wainamoinen, heart · What happens: answer, pray, pardon, not lend · To what, where: voice, slippings, tongue, falsehood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wainamoinen, heart), 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

advmodnsubjobjadvmodccadvmodpunctconjpunctpunctnsubjparataxisobjpunctconjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctmarknmod:possnsubjauxadvmodconjobjcaseoblpunctrootSoADVhePRONansweredVERBherPRONtruthfullyADVandCCONJhalfADV-PUNCTashamedADJ:PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONprayVERByouPRON,PUNCTpardonVERBtheDETslippingsNOUNofADPmyPRONtongueNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJmyPRONheartNOUNdoesAUXnotPARTlendVERBitselfPRONtoADPfalsehoodNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 answeredadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 answerednsubj
3answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 answeredobj
5truthfullytruthfullyADV_3 answeredadvmod
6andandCCONJ_9 ashamedcc
7halfhalfADVNumForm=Word NumType=Frac9 ashamedadvmod
8--PUNCT_7 halfpunct
9ashamedashamedADJDegree=Pos3 answeredconj
10::PUNCT_13 praypunct
11“"PUNCT_13 praypunct
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 praynsubj
13prayprayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 answeredparataxis
14youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs13 prayobj
15,,PUNCT_16 pardonpunct
16pardonpardonVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin13 prayconj
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 slippingsdet
18slippingsslippingNOUNNumber=Plur16 pardonobj
19ofofADP_21 tonguecase
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 tonguenmod:poss
21tonguetongueNOUNNumber=Sing18 slippingsnmod
22,,PUNCT_28 lendpunct
23forforSCONJ_28 lendmark
24mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 heartnmod:poss
25heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing28 lendnsubj
26doesdoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 lendaux
27notnotPARTPolarity=Neg28 lendadvmod
28lendlendVERBVerbForm=Inf13 prayconj
29itselfitselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes28 lendobj
30totoADP_31 falsehoodcase
31falsehoodfalsehoodNOUNNumber=Sing28 lendobl
32..PUNCT_3 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastWainamoinenvoicetruthfully propertytree rules
2pray in a quotepresentWainamoinenvoicetree rules
3pardon in a quoteinfinitiveWainamoinen not said herethe slippings of my tonguevn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipping=Theme
4not lend in a quotepresent · do-supportmy hearttonguefalsehoodvn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to falsehood=Recipient

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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