The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 72
He will forge the Sampo for us; he will put the wonderful mill together; henceforth we shall want for nothing.”
Who acts: Briskly, we · What happens: forge, put, want · To what, where: Sampo, wonderful mill
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 (Briskly, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forge | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 forge | aux |
| 3 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sampo | det |
| 5 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forge | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forge | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forge | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mill | det |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mill | amod |
| 14 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 put | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 17 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 20 want | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 want | aux |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 put | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 nothing | case |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 want | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forge | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | future | Briskly | the Sampo | for us | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for we=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | put | future | Briskly | the wonderful mill | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mill=Goal | |||
| 3 | want | shall | we | for nothing; henceforth property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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