The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 23
From him you may learn a hundred wisdom words—yes, a thousand volumes of wisdom words—if you will only do that which is required to earn such great knowledge.
Who acts: you · What happens: learn, do, require, earn · To what, where: hundred wisdom words, that, such great knowledge
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 (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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | aux |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 words | nummod |
| 8 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | compound |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learn | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 yes | punct |
| 11 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 learn | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 volumes | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thousand | det |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 volumes | nummod |
| 15 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learn | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 17 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 words | compound |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 volumes | nmod |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learn | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 required | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 required | aux:pass |
| 28 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 do | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 earn | mark |
| 30 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 required | xcomp |
| 31 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 knowledge | amod |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 knowledge | amod |
| 33 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 earn | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | may | you | hundred wisdom words | from man; thousand volumes of wisdom words obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent word=Topic from he=Source | |||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | require | present · passive | which nsubj:pass | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | such great knowledge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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