The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 107
Let us therefore crave his blessing, All our prayers to him addressing.”
Who acts: you, prayers, Creator, our · What happens: let, crave, address, bless, pray · To what, where: us, blessing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prayers, Creator, our), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 crave | advmod |
| 4 | crave | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prayers | punct |
| 8 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 prayers | det:predet |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blessing | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prayers | nmod |
| 13 | addressing | address | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 prayers | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crave | present | you not said here | Creator's blessing and our prayers to Creator | therefore property | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blessing=Theme | |||
| 3 | address | gerund | our prayers to Creator not said here | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bless | Creator | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | pray | our | to Creator | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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