The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 56
We will take it out of the cavern where it is grinding and we will carry it far away to our own country to give comfort and joy to our neighbors and food and clothing to our loved ones.”
Who acts: We, whole · What happens: take, grind, carry, give · To what, where: whole, cavern, comfort, loved ones
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, whole), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cavern | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cavern | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cavern | det |
| 8 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 grinding | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grinding | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grinding | aux |
| 12 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cavern | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carry | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 carry | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 country | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 country | amod |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 away | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 carry | conj |
| 26 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 joy | cc |
| 28 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 comfort | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 neighbors | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 31 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 give | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 food | cc |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 neighbors | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 clothing | cc |
| 35 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 neighbors | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 ones | case |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 ones | nmod:poss |
| 38 | loved | loved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ones | amod |
| 39 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 give | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | We | whole | the cavern | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out cavern=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grind | present · progressive | whole | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | carry | future | we | whole | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | we not said here | comfort and joy | our loved ones | to our neighbors and food and clothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme to neighbor=Recipient |
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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