The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 27

“Go back to your old haunts in the forest, and to-morrow I will send you so many nuts and roots and small beasts that you shall grow fat with the eating of them.”

Who acts: you, Ilmarinen, small beasts, nuts · What happens: go back, send, grow, eat · To what, where: many nuts, you, fat

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 (you, Ilmarinen, small beasts, nuts), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 haunts	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 haunts	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 haunts	amod
7	haunts	haunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Go	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 haunts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 send	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 send	cc
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 morrow	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 send	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 send	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 send	aux
18	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 send	iobj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 many	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nuts	amod
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 send	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 roots	cc
24	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nuts	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beasts	cc
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 beasts	amod
27	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nuts	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 grow	nsubj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 grow	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 grow	aux
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 beasts	acl:relcl
32	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grow	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 eating	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 eating	det
35	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grow	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eating	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go back in a quote	imperative	you not said here			to your old haunts in the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to haunt=Result
2	send in a quote	future	Ilmarinen	many nuts and roots and small beasts	you	to morrow	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination nut=Theme
3	grow in a quote	shall	small beasts	fat		with the eating of nuts; you nsubj	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fat=Patient with eating=Instrument
4	eat in a quote		nuts = nut				nom eating «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 27