The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 41
I caught him and subdued him; I taught him to serve me; I gave him to the world to be a joy forever.”
Who acts: I · What happens: catch, subdue, teach, serve, give, be · To what, where: various, me, joy
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 caught | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 subdued | cc |
| 5 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 subdued | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 taught | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 taught | nsubj |
| 9 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taught | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 serve | mark |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taught | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 joy | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 joy | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 joy | det |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | advcl |
| 25 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 24 joy | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | I | various | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | subdue | past | I not said here | various | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | I | various | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | give | past | I | various | to the world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to world=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | a joy | forever property | tree rules |
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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