The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 37
“O brother, tried and true!” he answered, “I know the thoughts of your heart, I know your great ambition.
Who acts: brother, your · What happens: try, answer, know, think, ambition · To what, where: thoughts, great ambition, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, 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 | _ | 5 tried | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 brother | discourse |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 true | cc |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thoughts | det |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 know | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thoughts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | conj |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ambition | nmod:poss |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ambition | amod |
| 26 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | past | brother | true property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: express | past | brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | brother | the thoughts of your heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | brother | your great ambition | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ambition=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think in a quote | your heart | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | ambition in a quote | your | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: 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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