The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 50

“The Sampo is but a little thing,” she said, “and never will I share it with another.

Who acts: Sampo · What happens: be, say, share · To what, where: little thing, thing · 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 (Sampo), 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	_	8 thing	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sampo	det
3	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 thing	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	_	19 share	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 share	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 will	cc
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 will	advmod
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 share	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 share	nsubj
19	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 share	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 another	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 share	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Sampo	a little thing		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Sampo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	share in a quote	future	Sampo	thing	with another	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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 50