The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 88
“You are gentle, you are harmless, but my magic spells should have wrought something far better and more beautiful.
Who acts: You, magic spells, my · What happens: be, have, spell · To what, where: something
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, magic spells, my), 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 | _ | 4 gentle | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gentle | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gentle | cop |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 harmless | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 harmless | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 harmless | cop |
| 8 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gentle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spells | nmod:poss |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spells | compound |
| 13 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gentle | conj |
| 16 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 better | advmod |
| 19 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 have | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | cc |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 beautiful | advmod |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 better | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | should | my magic spells | something | well property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 4 | spell in a quote | my | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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