The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 55
But talk not of a hundred Sampos; the world can never hold but one.”
Who acts: you, world · What happens: not talk, not hold
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, world), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 talk | cc |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 talk | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hundred | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 talk | obl |
| 7 | Sampos | Sampos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hundred | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hold | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hold | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 hold | advmod |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 talk | conj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hold | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | imperative | you not said here | of a hundred Sampos | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not hold | can | the world | one conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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