The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 39
Let her freely choose one of us, or let her a second time refuse us both.
Who acts: you · What happens: let, choose, refuse · To what, where: Maid, one, us
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), 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 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 4 choose | advmod |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 choose | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 refuse | obj |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | Maid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | you not said here | one of us | freely property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Maid | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | refuse | present | us | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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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