The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 143
She will sit on your knee and nestle dovelike in your arms—and she is worth her weight in gold.”
Who acts: mouth · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: knee, gold
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 (mouth), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | aux |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 knee | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knee | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dovelike | cc |
| 8 | nestle | nestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dovelike | compound |
| 9 | dovelike | dovelike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knee | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dovelike | nmod |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 worth | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worth | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 worth | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 worth | cop |
| 17 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sit | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 weight | nmod:poss |
| 19 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worth | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worth | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | future | mouth | your knee and nestle dovelike in your arms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | mouth | gold | mouth's weight obj; worth property | 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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