The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 127
“O thou pretty branch of rowan, bring good luck, bring fortune only, bring peace to all who dwell here—bring joy to our home and home land,” softly murmured the Maid of Beauty.
Who acts: pretty branch, Maid · What happens: bring, dwell, murmur · To what, where: good luck, fortune, peace, all, joy, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty branch, Maid), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 thou | discourse |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 branch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rowan | case |
| 7 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 branch | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 branch | punct |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 murmured | ccomp |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | conj |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | conj |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 bring | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 dwell | nsubj |
| 22 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 all | acl:relcl |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 dwell | advmod |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bring | conj |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 home | nmod:poss |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 land | cc |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 land | compound |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 home | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 35 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 36 murmured | advmod |
| 36 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Maid | det |
| 38 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 murmured | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Beauty | case |
| 40 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Maid | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan | good luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan not said here | fortune | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan not said here | peace | all | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to all=Destination | |||
| 4 | dwell in a quote | present | here | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | thou's pretty branch of rowan not said here | joy | our home and home land | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to home=Destination | |||
| 6 | murmur speech: other | past | the Maid of Beauty | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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