The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 56
I know you will do so, for Wainamoinen the Minstrel promised me.”
Who acts: I, you, Minstrel · What happens: know, do, promise · To what, where: me
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 (I, you, Minstrel), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 promised | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Wainamoinen | case |
| 9 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 promised | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minstrel | det |
| 11 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 promised | nsubj |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 promised | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the Minstrel | me | for Wainamoinen goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent i=Theme for wainamoinen=Goal |
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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