The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 48
It has made you rich and happy, now give us a small portion of it that it may bless our suffering people also.”
Who acts: news · What happens: make, give, bless · To what, where: news, small portion, us, suffering people
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 (news), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 happy | cc |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rich | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | parataxis |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 portion | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 portion | amod |
| 14 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 portion | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 bless | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bless | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bless | aux |
| 20 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 people | nmod:poss |
| 22 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 people | compound |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bless | obj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 bless | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | news | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a small portion of news | us | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient portion=Theme | |||
| 3 | bless | may | news | our suffering people | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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