The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 13
“Never will he earn the food that is given him, never will his master have any joy from his labor.”
Who acts: slave, master · What happens: not earn, give, not have · To what, where: food, slave, joy, labor
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, master), 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 | _ | 5 earn | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 earn | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 earn | nsubj |
| 5 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 earn | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 food | acl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 have | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | conj |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 joy | det |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 labor | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 labor | nmod:poss |
| 22 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 earn | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not earn in a quote | future | slave | the food | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · passive | the food | slave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | future | slave's master | any joy | slave's labor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
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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