The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 55
If you are fooling me, you shall have no trinket nor ring nor precious jewel—for I will teach you not to hinder me with trifles.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: fool, have, teach, not hinder · To what, where: me, trinket, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fooling | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fooling | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fooling | aux |
| 4 | fooling | fool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 have | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fooling | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fooling | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 trinket | det |
| 11 | trinket | trinket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 ring | cc |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trinket | conj |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 jewel | cc |
| 15 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 jewel | amod |
| 16 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trinket | conj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 teach | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 teach | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 teach | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 teach | aux |
| 21 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 teach | iobj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 hinder | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hinder | mark |
| 25 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 teach | xcomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hinder | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 trifles | case |
| 28 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hinder | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | you | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | no trinket nor ring nor precious jewel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trinket=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not hinder | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | with trifles | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Eventuality |
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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