The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 102
“I have nothing here that is my own, but I promise to send you many rich treasures.
Who acts: music, that · What happens: have, be, promise, send · To what, where: nothing, many rich treasures, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (music, that), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 own | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 own | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 here | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 promise | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 promise | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 promise | nsubj |
| 13 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 send | mark |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 promise | xcomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 send | iobj |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 treasures | amod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 treasures | amod |
| 19 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 send | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | music | nothing | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | my nmod:poss; own property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | music | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | send not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | music not said here | many rich treasures | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination treasure=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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