The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 38

“You have no need to ask shelter of me,” answered the woman; “for when did the Mistress of Pohyola turn a stranger from her door?

Who acts: You, woman · What happens: have, ask, answer, do, turn · To what, where: need, shelter, Mistress, stranger, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, woman), 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	_	13 answered	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	parataxis
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 need	det
5	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	acl
8	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 shelter	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 did	mark
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 did	advmod
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mistress	det
22	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Pohyola	case
24	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mistress	nmod
25	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stranger	det
27	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 door	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 door	nmod:poss
30	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	You	no need		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	shelter of me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shelter=Recipient
3	answer speech: ask	past	the woman			tree rules
4	do in a quote	past		the Mistress of Pohyola		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Eventuality
5	turn in a quote	present	the woman not said here	a stranger	shelter's door	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme from door=Trajectory

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 38