The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 43
“Good fortune comes to those who labor for it and who most deserve it,” said Dame Louhi coldly.
Who acts: Good fortune, Dame · What happens: come, labor, deserve, say · To what, where: those, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good fortune, Dame), 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 comes | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortune | amod |
| 3 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 comes | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 labor | nsubj |
| 8 | labor | labor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 labor | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 deserve | cc |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 deserve | nsubj |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 deserve | advmod |
| 14 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 labor | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deserve | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deserve | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dame | flat |
| 21 | coldly | coldly | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | Good fortune | those | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to that=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | labor in a quote | present | for fortune; who nsubj | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | deserve in a quote | present | fortune | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | coldly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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