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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 137

“Dear brother, friend, companion,” answered the Smith, “I bring her to you because I love you, because I would make you happy.

Who acts: Dear brother · What happens: answer, bring, love, make · To what, where: Smith, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear brother), 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

punctamodnsubjpunctconjpunctconjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjconjobjcaseoblmarknsubjadvclobjpunctmarknsubjauxconjobjxcomppunctroot“PUNCTDearADJbrotherNOUN,PUNCTfriendNOUN,PUNCTcompanionNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTansweredVERBtheDETSmithPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONbringVERBherPRONtoADPyouPRONbecauseSCONJIPRONloveVERByouPRON,PUNCTbecauseSCONJIPRONwouldAUXmakeVERByouPRONhappyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 brotherpunct
2DeardearADJDegree=Pos3 brotheramod
3brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing10 answerednsubj
4,,PUNCT_5 friendpunct
5friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing3 brotherconj
6,,PUNCT_7 companionpunct
7companioncompanionNOUNNumber=Sing3 brotherconj
8,,PUNCT_3 brotherpunct
9”"PUNCT_3 brotherpunct
10answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Smithdet
12SmithSmithPROPNNumber=Sing10 answeredobj
13,,PUNCT_16 bringpunct
14“"PUNCT_16 bringpunct
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 bringnsubj
16bringbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 answeredconj
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 bringobj
18totoADP_19 youcase
19youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs16 bringobl
20becausebecauseSCONJ_22 lovemark
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 lovensubj
22loveloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 bringadvcl
23youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs22 loveobj
24,,PUNCT_28 makepunct
25becausebecauseSCONJ_28 makemark
26IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 makensubj
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 makeaux
28makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf22 loveconj
29youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs28 makeobj
30happyhappyADJDegree=Pos28 makexcomp
31..PUNCT_10 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastDear brother and friend and companionthe Smithvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent smith=Eventuality
2bring in a quotepresentDear brother and friend and companion = brotherfriendthe Smith = smithvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Destination
3love in a quotepresentDear brother and friend and companion = brotherthe Smith = smithvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4make in a quotewouldDear brother and friend and companion = brotherthe Smith = smithhappy propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product

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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