The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 132
“O thou great and good Creator, look down and hear our last petition.
Who acts: thou, great Creator, our · What happens: creator, look down, hear, petition · To what, where: last petition
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 (thou, great Creator, our), 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 | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 Creator | discourse |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 Creator | nsubj |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Creator | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 good | cc |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | conj |
| 7 | Creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Creator | punct |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 look | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hear | cc |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | conj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 petition | nmod:poss |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 petition | amod |
| 15 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creator in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | look down in a quote | infinitive | great Creator | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present | great Creator not said here | our last petition | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer petition=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | petition in a quote | our | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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