The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 106
I give you thanks, thanks, thanks; for well I know that you desire no other fee.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, know, desire · To what, where: thanks, you, other fee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thanks | punct |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanks | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanks | punct |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanks | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 know | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 desire | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 desire | nsubj |
| 16 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 fee | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fee | amod |
| 19 | fee | fee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 desire | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | thanks and thanks and thanks | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thanks=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | desire | present | you | no other fee | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fee=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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