The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 44
Once before at your bidding I refused to go with him, but now——”
Who acts: I, your · What happens: refuse, not go, bid · To what, where: bidding
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 (I, your), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 before | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 refused | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 bidding | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refused | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 refused | nsubj |
| 7 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 refused | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 — | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 — | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 — | advmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | I | your bidding | before property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | not go | to-infinitive | I not said here | with man | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | bid | your | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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