The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 112
It must be the real, the wonderful Sampo; I will have nothing else.”
Who acts: Sampo, I · What happens: be, have · To what, where: nothing
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 (Sampo, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 real | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 real | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 real | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 real | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sampo | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sampo | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Sampo | amod |
| 9 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 real | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 real | parataxis |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 nothing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 real | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 real | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Sampo | the wonderful Sampo obl; real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | future | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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