The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 84
Father used to go out to fight for friends and country, to help the weak and worry the strong.
Who acts: Father · What happens: use, go out, fight, help, worry · To what, where: weak, strong
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fight | mark |
| 7 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fight | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 country | cc |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friends | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 weak | det |
| 16 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 help | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 worry | cc |
| 18 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 help | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 strong | det |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 worry | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Father | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | Father not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | Father not said here | for friends and country | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Father not said here | the weak | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | worry | infinitive | Father not said here | the strong | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus strong=Experiencer |
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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