The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 48
“Carry this to your Mistress,” he said, “and beware that you touch not the lid of magic colors.”
Who acts: Mistress, you · What happens: carry, say, beware, not touch · To what, where: this, Mistress, lid · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mistress, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
| 2 | Carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Carry | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Mistress | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Mistress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beware | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beware | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beware | cc |
| 14 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 touch | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 touch | nsubj |
| 17 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 beware | advcl |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 touch | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lid | det |
| 20 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touch | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 colors | case |
| 22 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 colors | amod |
| 23 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lid | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 beware | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | infinitive | this | your Mistress | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to mistress=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | beware in a quote | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | not touch in a quote | present | you | the lid of magic colors | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lid=Co-Theme |
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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