The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 74

“You are wise, my elder brother,” he said, “much wiser than I. The task is a mighty one, but for the sake of our people and our country I will not shrink from it.

Who acts: You, brother, task · What happens: be, say, not shrink · To what, where: mighty one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, brother, task), 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 wise	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wise	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wise	cop
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brother	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
7	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wise	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wise	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 wise	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wiser	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 wiser	punct
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 wiser	advmod
16	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 said	parataxis
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 I.	case
18	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wiser	obl
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 task	det
20	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 one	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 one	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wiser	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 shrink	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 shrink	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 sake	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sake	det
29	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shrink	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 people	nmod:poss
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sake	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 country	cc
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 country	nmod:poss
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 people	conj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 shrink	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 shrink	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 shrink	advmod
39	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 shrink	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You		my elder brother obl; wise property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	the task	a mighty one		tree rules
4	not shrink in a quote	future	brother		for the sake of our people and our country; from task	vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from it=Stimulus

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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 74