The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 85
Good food we will give you—choice bacon, fresh salmon from the sea, white cakes of barley, hot from the oven.
Who acts: Good food · What happens: give · To what, where: choice bacon, 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 (Good food), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 food | amod |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bacon | punct |
| 8 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bacon | compound |
| 9 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 salmon | punct |
| 11 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 salmon | amod |
| 12 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bacon | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 salmon | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cakes | punct |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cakes | amod |
| 18 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bacon | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 barley | case |
| 20 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cakes | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hot | punct |
| 22 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bacon | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 oven | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 oven | det |
| 25 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hot | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | Good food | choice bacon and fresh salmon from the sea and white cakes of barley | you | we nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bacon=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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