The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 56
“O Jumala, just and true, think not hard of me if I have gone astray!
Who acts: Jumala, Good luck · What happens: think, go
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 (Jumala, Good luck), 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 | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Jumala | discourse |
| 3 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 think | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 true | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 true | cc |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jumala | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jumala | punct |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 think | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hard | obl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 gone | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | aux |
| 17 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 hard | advcl |
| 18 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gone | xcomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | Jumala | hard property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | Good luck to my steed and good luck to me = luck | astray property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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