The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 73
“I care naught for old men,” replied the Maid of Beauty; “riches tempt me not; the magic vessel may never reach its haven.
Who acts: Maid, riches, magic vessel · What happens: care, reply, not tempt, not reach · To what, where: naught, Minstrel, haven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Maid, riches, magic vessel), 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 | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 care | nsubj |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 care | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 care | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 care | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Maid | det |
| 12 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Beauty | case |
| 14 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Maid | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempt | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempt | punct |
| 17 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tempt | nsubj |
| 18 | tempt | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 care | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tempt | obj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 tempt | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 reach | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 vessel | det |
| 23 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 vessel | amod |
| 24 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reach | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 reach | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 reach | advmod |
| 27 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 care | parataxis |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 haven | nmod:poss |
| 29 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reach | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care in a quote | present | the Maid of Beauty = maid | naught | for old men | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Maid of Beauty | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not tempt in a quote | present | riches | the Minstrel = minstrel | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not reach in a quote | may | the magic vessel | vessel's haven | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent haven=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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