--- title: “Dear brother, friend, companion,” answered the Smith, “I bring her… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “Dear brother, friend, companion,” answered the Smith, “I bring her to you because I love you, because I would make you happy. Who acts: Dear brother. 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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 (Dear brother), 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:pg66819:31:137 # text = “Dear brother, friend, companion,” answered the Smith, “I bring her to you because I love you, because I would make you happy. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Smith Smith PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Dear brother and friend and companion | | the Smith | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent smith=Eventuality | | 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | Dear brother and friend and companion *= brother* | friend | the Smith *= smith* | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Destination | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Dear brother and friend and companion *= brother* | the Smith *= smith* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | would | Dear brother and friend and companion *= brother* | the Smith *= smith* | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/138/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/)