The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 107
“You have but to name some wonderful act and forthwith I will perform it.
Who acts: You, Dame · What happens: have, name, perform · To what, where: wonderful act, act
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 (You, Dame), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 name | cc |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 name | mark |
| 6 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 act | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 act | amod |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perform | cc |
| 11 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 14 perform | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 perform | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 perform | aux |
| 14 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 name | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 perform | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | You | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | name in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | some wonderful act | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perform in a quote | future | Dame | act | forthwith property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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