The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 133
Grant that we may live in joy and comfort, and when our span of life is ended, let us die in peace and hope, loved by all who know us, and worthy to be honored through the ages.”
Who acts: Grant, us · What happens: live, end, let, die, love, know · To what, where: joy, span, us, peace, ages
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 (Grant, us), 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 | Grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 comfort | cc |
| 9 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ended | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ended | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 ended | mark |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 span | nmod:poss |
| 14 | span | span | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 span | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ended | aux:pass |
| 18 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 live | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 peace | case |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 die | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hope | cc |
| 26 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 peace | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loved | punct |
| 28 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 peace | acl:relcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 loved | obl |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 know | nsubj |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 all | acl:relcl |
| 33 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 know | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 worthy | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 worthy | cc |
| 36 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 live | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 honored | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 honored | aux:pass |
| 39 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 worthy | xcomp |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 ages | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ages | det |
| 42 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 honored | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | may | Grant | joy and comfort | that nsubj; we nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location | |||
| 2 | end | present · passive | our span of life | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | us not said here | in peace and hope | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in peace=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | love | participle | peace and hope not said here | by all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | know | present | us | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | honor | to-infinitive · passive | Grant not said here | through the ages | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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