The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 123
One has only to whisper his wishes to it and they will all come true.”
Who acts: One, wishes, mill · What happens: have, whisper, come, wish · To what, where: wishes, thing
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 (One, wishes, mill), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 whisper | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 whisper | mark |
| 5 | whisper | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 has | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 whisper | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whisper | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whisper | conj |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 come | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | One | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | to-infinitive | One not said here | mill's wishes | thing | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Topic to it=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come | future | wishes = wish | all, true property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | mill | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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