The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 109
“O Jumala!” he prayed, “O Jumala, thou giver of blessings, grant that these small fragments of the mill of fortune may take root and flourish and in time bring great joy and many comforts to the dear people of this pleasant land.”
Who acts: Jumala, thou, small fragments · What happens: pray, giver, take, bring · To what, where: Jumala, grant, great joy, dear people
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jumala, thou, small fragments), 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 | _ | 7 prayed | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Jumala | discourse |
| 3 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jumala | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jumala | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 prayed | nsubj |
| 7 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jumala | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jumala | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 Jumala | discourse |
| 11 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 giver | punct |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 giver | nsubj |
| 14 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Jumala | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 blessings | case |
| 16 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 giver | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grant | punct |
| 18 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Jumala | appos |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 take | obj |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 fragments | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fragments | amod |
| 22 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 take | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mill | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mill | det |
| 25 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fragments | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fortune | case |
| 27 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mill | nmod |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 grant | acl:relcl |
| 30 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 flourish | cc |
| 32 | flourish | flourish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 root | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bring | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obl |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 take | conj |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 joy | amod |
| 38 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 comforts | cc |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 comforts | amod |
| 41 | comforts | comfort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 joy | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 people | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 people | det |
| 44 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 people | amod |
| 45 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bring | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 land | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 land | det |
| 48 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 land | amod |
| 49 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 people | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayed | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Jumala | Jumala | treasure nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | giver in a quote | thou | of blessings | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | may | this small fragments of the mill of fortune | grant | root and flourish obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme root=Destination | |||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | this small fragments of the mill of fortune not said here | great joy and many comforts | the dear people of this pleasant land | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to people=Destination |
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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