The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 47
Therefore we have come to ask you to share the Sampo with us.
Who acts: we · What happens: come, ask, share · To what, where: you, Sampo
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 (we), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sampo | det |
| 11 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 share | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 share | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | we | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | the Sampo | with us | 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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