The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 18
“Never under the silver moon will I taste of food till my desire is granted me—till I have leave to take and wed the maiden who is the desire of my heart.”
Who acts: silver moon, hero, leave, maiden, my · What happens: taste, grant, have, take, wed, be · To what, where: desire, leave, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver moon, hero, leave, maiden), 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 taste | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 moon | advmod |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moon | compound |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taste | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 taste | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 taste | nsubj |
| 9 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 food | case |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taste | obl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 granted | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 granted | aux:pass |
| 16 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 taste | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 granted | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 taste | conj |
| 22 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wed | cc |
| 26 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 take | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maiden | det |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wed | obj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 desire | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 desire | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 desire | det |
| 32 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 desire | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taste | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste in a quote | future | the silver moon | of food; I nsubj | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | present · passive | my desire | me obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the hero = hero | leave | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | leave not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wed in a quote | infinitive | leave not said here | the maiden | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the maiden | the desire | of my heart | tree rules | |||
| 7 | desire in a quote | my | nom desire «feeling 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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