The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 28
I will do anything to win from you the great treasure, the priceless Maid of Beauty.”
Who acts: I · What happens: do, win · To what, where: anything, great treasure
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 win | mark |
| 6 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anything | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 win | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasure | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 treasure | amod |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 win | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Maid | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Maid | det |
| 14 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Maid | amod |
| 15 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 treasure | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Beauty | case |
| 17 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Maid | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | I not said here | the great treasure | from you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme from you=Source |
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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