The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 89
I desire a golden maiden and no other form will please me.”
Who acts: I, golden maiden · What happens: desire, please · To what, where: me
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 (I, golden maiden), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 please | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 form | cc |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 form | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maiden | conj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 please | aux |
| 11 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 please | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | please | future | a golden maiden and no other form | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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