The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 46
Much better it will be for us to share it like friends than to fight for it and then lose it.”
Who acts: us, it · What happens: share, be, fight, lose · To what, where: Sampo
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 (us, it), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 better | advmod |
| 2 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 friends | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 friends | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 friends | cop |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 share | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 friends | csubj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 share | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 friends | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fight | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lose | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lose | advmod |
| 20 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fight | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lose | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 friends | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | to-infinitive | us | Sampo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | it | like friends; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | for Sampo | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | present | Sampo | then | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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