The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 56
“I bring you no trifles,” said Anniki; “and I shall hold you to your promise.”
Who acts: Anniki, your · What happens: bring, say, hold, promise · To what, where: trifles, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Anniki, your), 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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 trifles | det |
| 6 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hold | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hold | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hold | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hold | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hold | aux |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hold | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 promise | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hold | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present | Anniki | no trifles | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination trifle=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Anniki | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | shall | Anniki | you | to your promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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