The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 43
If the maiden shall prefer you, I will not be envious; for your good luck will be my good fortune, and my success will be your triumph.”
Who acts: maiden, I, good luck, success · What happens: prefer, not be, be · To what, where: you, triumph
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 (maiden, I, good luck, success), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 prefer | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prefer | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 prefer | aux |
| 5 | prefer | prefer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 envious | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 prefer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prefer | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 envious | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 envious | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 envious | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 envious | cop |
| 12 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fortune | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 fortune | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 luck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 luck | amod |
| 17 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fortune | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fortune | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fortune | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fortune | amod |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 envious | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 triumph | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 triumph | cc |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 success | nmod:poss |
| 26 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 triumph | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 triumph | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 triumph | cop |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 triumph | nmod:poss |
| 30 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fortune | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 triumph | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 triumph | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer a condition, not said to happen | shall | the maiden | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | future | I | envious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | future | your good luck | for my good fortune; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | future | my success | your triumph | your nmod:poss | 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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