The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 37
Then I will surely give you my daughter; you shall have the blue-winged duckling; you shall wait no longer, toil no longer, but be at once rewarded with your prize.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, have, wing, wait, reward · To what, where: daughter, winged duckling, toil
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 (I, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 give | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | iobj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 duckling | det |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 winged | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 blue | punct |
| 16 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 duckling | amod |
| 17 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | aux |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 wait | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 toil | punct |
| 25 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wait | obl |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 longer | advmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 wait | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rewarded | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 rewarded | cc |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 once | case |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 rewarded | obl |
| 33 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wait | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 prize | case |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 prize | nmod:poss |
| 36 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rewarded | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | my daughter | then | you iobj; surely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | shall | you | the winged duckling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | wait | shall | you | toil | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | reward | infinitive · passive | you not said here | with your prize | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with prize=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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