The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 104
If you wish her to go to the Land of Heroes with you, ask her.
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, go, ask · To what, where: Maid, Land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Land | det |
| 9 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Heroes | case |
| 11 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Land | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | Maid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Land of Heroes | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Maid | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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