The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 37
“You must overcome him in fair battle, and then he will whisper sweet words of magic into your ear.
Who acts: You, dwarf · What happens: overcome, whisper, word · To what, where: dwarf, sweet words, ear, magic
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, dwarf), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 overcome | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | aux |
| 4 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 overcome | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 battle | amod |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcome | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whisper | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whisper | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 whisper | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 whisper | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 whisper | aux |
| 14 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 overcome | conj |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 whisper | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 magic | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 words | nmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 ear | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ear | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisper | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome in a quote | must | You | dwarf | in fair battle | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in battle=Attribute | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | future | dwarf | sweet words of magic | your ear | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic into ear=Recipient | ||
| 3 | word in a quote | magic | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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