The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 26

“Forget to-day, think only of to-morrow—for then there will be plenty,” answered Ilmarinen.

Who acts: plenty, Ilmarinen · What happens: forget, think, be, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (plenty, Ilmarinen), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Forget	punct
2	Forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 answered	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 to	punct
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Forget	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Forget	conj
8	only	only	ADV	_	12 morrow	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 only	fixed
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 morrow	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 to	punct
12	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	obl
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 be	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 then	case
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 be	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 be	expl
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Forget	conj
19	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 be	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Forget	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Forget	punct
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 answered	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget in a quote	infinitive			day		tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive				to morrow	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be in a quote	future	plenty	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	Ilmarinen				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.

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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 26