The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 55

You have only to whisper your wishes into the small orifice on the top of the mill, and it will begin to run—you can hear its wheels buzzing and its levers creaking.

Who acts: You, mill, wheels, levers, your · What happens: whisper, begin, run, hear, buzz, creak · To what, where: wishes, small orifice, wheels

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, mill, wheels, levers), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 whisper	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whisper	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 whisper	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 whisper	mark
5	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wishes	nmod:poss
7	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whisper	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 orifice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 orifice	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 orifice	amod
11	orifice	orifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whisper	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 orifice	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mill	det
17	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begin	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begin	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begin	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 begin	aux
22	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 whisper	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 run	mark
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begin	xcomp
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 hear	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 hear	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	aux
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 whisper	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wheels	nmod:poss
30	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hear	obj
31	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 hear	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 creaking	cc
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 levers	nmod:poss
34	levers	lever	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 creaking	nsubj
35	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 hear	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 whisper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present	You	your wishes	the small orifice on the top of the mill	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Topic into orifice=Recipient
2	begin	future	mill			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	run	to-infinitive	mill not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	can	you	mill's wheels		tree rules
5	buzz	gerund	mill's wheels not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	creak	gerund	mill's levers			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wish		your			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 Forging of the Sampo, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 55