The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 19

If he has really come to woo you, treat him kindly, listen to his words of honey, and answer ‘Yes’ to every question; for never will you have a nobler suitor.”

Who acts: doubt, you · What happens: come, woo, treat, listen, answer, not have · To what, where: you, doubt, nobler suitor, honey

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 listen	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 woo	mark
7	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 woo	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 treat	punct
10	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 woo	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 treat	obj
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	10 treat	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
14	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 words	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 words	nmod:poss
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 listen	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 honey	case
19	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 answer	cc
22	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	conj
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
24	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	22 answer	obj
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 question	case
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 question	det
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answer	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 have	advmod
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 listen	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 suitor	det
36	nobler	noble	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 suitor	amod
37	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	present	doubt				tree rules
2	woo	to-infinitive	doubt not said here	you			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	treat	infinitive	doubt not said here		doubt	kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	listen	imperative	you not said here			to doubt's words of honey	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here			to every question	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality
6	not have	future	you	a nobler suitor			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Patient
7	word		doubt	honey			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 19