The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 141
Now, when there can be no more joy for me, I bring you this Golden Maiden to be your solace and delight.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not be, bring, be · To what, where: more joy, you, solace
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 (you, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 joy | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 joy | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 be | expl |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 joy | cop |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 joy | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 joy | amod |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 joy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 joy | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Maiden | nsubj |
| 17 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Maiden | amod |
| 18 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 solace | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 solace | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 solace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 delight | cc |
| 24 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 solace | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | imperative | you not said here | more joy | now | for me | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bring | present | I | you | Golden Maiden this parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | your solace and delight | your nmod:poss; delight conj | 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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