The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 38
Let us agree each to woo this maiden honorably as a man and a hero would woo her.
Who acts: you, us, hero · What happens: let, agree, woo · To what, where: us, each, this, Maid
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 (you, us, hero), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 agree | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 woo | mark |
| 6 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agree | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 woo | obj |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 this | amod |
| 9 | honorably | honorably | ADV | _ | 6 woo | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woo | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 woo | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hero | det |
| 15 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woo | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 woo | aux |
| 17 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 woo | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | infinitive | us not said here | each | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent each=Topic | ||||
| 3 | woo | to-infinitive | us not said here | this | as a man; honorably property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 4 | woo | would | a hero | Maid | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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