The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 134
I will go into gardens, meadows, cornfields, and stir the soil; and woe to the plant that comes in my way, for I will destroy it.”
Who acts: I, plant · What happens: go, stir, come, destroy · To what, where: gardens, soil, way
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, plant), 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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 gardens | case |
| 5 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 meadows | punct |
| 7 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gardens | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cornfields | punct |
| 9 | cornfields | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gardens | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stir | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stir | cc |
| 12 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soil | det |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stir | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 woe | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 woe | cc |
| 17 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 plant | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plant | det |
| 20 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woe | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 plant | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 destroy | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 destroy | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 destroy | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 destroy | aux |
| 30 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 woe | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 destroy | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | gardens and meadows and cornfields | woe to the plant parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stir | infinitive | I not said here | the soil | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soil=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the plant | my way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 4 | destroy | future | I | soil | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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