The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 122
The three sisters intended that you should be a blessing to mankind; but now I greatly fear that you will become a curse.”
Who acts: three sisters, you, I · What happens: intend, be, fear, become · To what, where: blessing, curse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sisters, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 intended | nsubj |
| 4 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 blessing | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 blessing | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 blessing | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 blessing | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blessing | det |
| 10 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intended | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mankind | case |
| 12 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blessing | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fear | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fear | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 fear | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fear | nsubj |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 18 fear | advmod |
| 18 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 become | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 become | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | aux |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fear | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 curse | det |
| 24 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past | the three sisters | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | should | you | a blessing | to mankind | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fear | present | I | now | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | become | future | you | a curse | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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