The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 42
“I promise—yes, I swear to you that I will do naught that is dishonorable or unfair.
Who acts: I · What happens: promise, swear, do, be · To what, where: you, naught · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 swear | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swear | nsubj |
| 8 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 swear | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 swear | advcl |
| 15 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 dishonorable | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dishonorable | cop |
| 18 | dishonorable | dishonorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 naught | acl:relcl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 unfair | cc |
| 20 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dishonorable | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | I | you | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | future | I | naught | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | dishonorable property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | tree rules |
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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