The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 155
To thee I owe my life, my strength, my all—accept my gratitude.”
Who acts: I · What happens: owe, accept · To what, where: life, thee, gratitude
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 thee | case |
| 2 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 owe | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 owe | nsubj |
| 4 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strength | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 strength | nmod:poss |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 owe | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 all | nmod:poss |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 owe | conj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 accept | punct |
| 14 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 owe | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accept | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 owe | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | I | my life and my strength | to thee goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to thou=Goal | |||
| 2 | accept | infinitive | I not said here | my gratitude | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme |
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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