The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 9
For those who are honest and true and deserving, I spin joy and honor and length of days; for those who are false and cruel and selfish, I spin grief and punishment and an early journey to Tuoni’s kingdom.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, deserve, spin · To what, where: joy, grief
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 those | case |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 honest | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | cop |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 true | cc |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 honest | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 deserving | cc |
| 9 | deserving | deserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 honest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 spin | nsubj |
| 12 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spin | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 honor | cc |
| 15 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joy | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 length | cc |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joy | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 length | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 those | case |
| 22 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 those | conj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 false | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 false | cop |
| 25 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 those | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cruel | cc |
| 27 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 false | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 selfish | cc |
| 29 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 false | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 spin | nsubj |
| 32 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 33 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spin | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 punishment | cc |
| 35 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grief | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 journey | cc |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 journey | det |
| 38 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 journey | amod |
| 39 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grief | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 kingdom | case |
| 41 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 Tuoni | case |
| 43 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 journey | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 spin | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | who nsubj; honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | deserve | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spin | present | I | joy and honor and length of days | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | who nsubj; selfish conj; false property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | spin | present | I | grief and punishment and a early journey to Tuoni's kingdom | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grief=Theme |
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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