The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 53
Honor father, honor mother; Kindly bear with one another; Help the helpless, cheer the friendless; Let your deeds of love be endless; Cheat your trusting neighbor never; Speak the truth, and speak it ever.
Who acts: deeds · What happens: bear, help, cheer, let, be, not cheat · To what, where: one, helpless, friendless, deeds, trusting neighbor, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (deeds), 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 | Honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | compound |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 4 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | compound |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 bear | punct |
| 7 | Kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 8 bear | advmod |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 father | appos |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 bear | obj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | fixed |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Help | punct |
| 13 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 helpless | det |
| 15 | helpless | helpless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Help | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cheer | punct |
| 17 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 friendless | det |
| 19 | friendless | friendless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cheer | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Let | punct |
| 21 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | parataxis |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 23 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Let | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deeds | nmod |
| 26 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Let | xcomp |
| 27 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 be | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Cheat | punct |
| 29 | Cheat | cheat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 Let | conj |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 31 | trusting | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 neighbor | amod |
| 32 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Cheat | obj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 Cheat | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 Speak | punct |
| 35 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 Cheat | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 truth | det |
| 37 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Speak | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 speak | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 speak | cc |
| 40 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Cheat | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 speak | obj |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 speak | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | infinitive | one | kindly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | the helpless | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helpless=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | cheer | infinitive | the friendless | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friendless=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | your deeds of love | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | infinitive | your deeds of love not said here | endless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not cheat | infinitive | your trusting neighbor | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Source | |||||
| 7 | trust | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | speak speech: other | infinitive | the truth | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | speak speech: other | present | truth | ever | tree rules |
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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