The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 31
Harder things than these will I do if only you will surely give me your daughter.”
Who acts: Harder things, you · What happens: do, give · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harder things, 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 | Harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | nmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 give | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 13 give | advmod |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | Harder things than these | I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen | future | you | your daughter | me iobj; surely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=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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