--- title: Honor father, honor mother; Kindly bear with one another; Help the h… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: Honor father, honor mother; Kindly bear with one another; Help the helpless, cheer the friendless; Let your deeds of love be endless; Cheat your trusting neighbor never; Speak the truth, and speak it ever. Who acts: deeds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deeds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:16:53 # text = Honor father, honor mother; Kindly bear with one another; Help the helpless, cheer the friendless; Let your deeds of love be endless; Cheat your trusting neighbor never; Speak the truth, and speak it ever. 1 Honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 honor honor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Kindly kindly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 bear bear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 appos _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 obj _ _ 11 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 10 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 helpless helpless NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 cheer cheer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 friendless friendless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 27 endless endless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Cheat cheat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 amod _ _ 32 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | infinitive | | one | | | | kindly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 2 | **help** | infinitive | | the helpless | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helpless=Beneficiary | | 3 | **cheer** | infinitive | | the friendless | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friendless=Experiencer | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | | your deeds of love | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | infinitive | your deeds of love *not said here* | | | | | endless *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **cheat** | infinitive | | your trusting neighbor | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Source | | 7 | **trust** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | | the truth | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | | truth | | | ever | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/16/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/16/54/) - ↑ back to [The Hero’s Return](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/16/)