The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 83
Give me I pray you three words of magic power—three words that I lack and greatly desire.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, pray, lack, word · To what, where: three words, me, you, magic power
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, I), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | nsubj |
| 4 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pray | obj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 words | nummod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pray | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 power | compound |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 words | punct |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 words | nummod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lack | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lack | nsubj |
| 16 | lack | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 words | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 desire | cc |
| 18 | greatly | greatly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 desire | amod |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | three words and greatly desire | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | three words of magic power obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lack | present | I | three words and greatly desire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | magic power | 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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