The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 66
“I have promised, and you know the penalty of a broken promise.”
Who acts: you · What happens: promise, know, break · To what, where: Minstrel, penalty
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | aux |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 know | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 penalty | det |
| 10 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 promise | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 promise | det |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 promise | amod |
| 14 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 penalty | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Minstrel = minstrel | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | the penalty of a broken promise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer penalty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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