The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 92
“Pohyola is the fairest place in all the world, and you must learn to love it.”
Who acts: Pohyola, you · What happens: be, learn, love · To what, where: fairest place, world
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 (Pohyola, you), 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 | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 2 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 world | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learn | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | aux |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 learn | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 love | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Pohyola | the fairest place | all world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn in a quote | must | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | world | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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