The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 51
Give me but one hint regarding its shape and nature, and I will make the Sampo—yes, a hundred Sampos—for you.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, regard, make · To what, where: hundred, you, Sampo
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 (you, 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 hint | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hint | nummod |
| 5 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | conj |
| 6 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shape | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shape | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hint | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nature | cc |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shape | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sampo | det |
| 17 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 yes | punct |
| 19 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 Give | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hundred | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hundred | det |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Give | obl |
| 23 | Sampos | Sampos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hundred | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 you | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a hundred Sampos | you | me iobj; one hint regard hint's shape and nature conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Theme | ||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | future | I | the Sampo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product |
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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