The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 59
Swiftly will we speed to Hero Land, and great honor shall be yours, for you shall be a minstrel’s queen.”
Who acts: we, great honor, you · What happens: speed, be · To what, where: Hero, yours
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, great honor, 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 4 speed | advmod |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speed | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 speed | nsubj |
| 4 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Hero | case |
| 6 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speed | obl |
| 7 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hero | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yours | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 yours | cc |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 honor | amod |
| 11 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yours | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 yours | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 yours | cop |
| 14 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 speed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 queen | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 queen | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 queen | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 queen | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 queen | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 minstrel | det |
| 21 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 queen | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 minstrel | case |
| 23 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speed | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speed | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | future | we | Hero | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to hero=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | shall | great honor | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | you | for a minstrel's queen; a minstrel nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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