The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 157
I will even give him, if he so desire, my daughter for his wife—this I promise.”
Who acts: I, this · What happens: give, promise · To what, where: singer
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 (I, this), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 desire | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 desire | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 desire | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 desire | case |
| 10 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daughter | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desire | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desire | nmod |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 promise | punct |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 promise | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nsubj |
| 20 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | singer | so desire singer for singer's wife and my daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | this | I nsubj | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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