The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 38
It will ease your mind and make you stronger.”
Who acts: fear, your · What happens: ease, make, mind · To what, where: mind, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, your), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ease | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ease | aux |
| 3 | ease | ease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ease | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 make | cc |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ease | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ease | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ease | future | fear | your mind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | fear not said here | you | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 3 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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