The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 73
Take the mill to some safe place and confine it within strong walls, lest it overwhelm us with prosperity.”
Who acts: you, mill · What happens: take, confine, overwhelm · To what, where: mill, safe place, us
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), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mill | det |
| 3 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 place | det |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 confine | cc |
| 9 | confine | confine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 confine | obj |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 walls | amod |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 confine | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overwhelm | punct |
| 15 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 17 overwhelm | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 overwhelm | nsubj |
| 17 | overwhelm | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 overwhelm | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 prosperity | case |
| 20 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overwhelm | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the mill | some safe place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mill=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 2 | confine | infinitive | you not said here | mill | within strong walls | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | overwhelm | present | mill | us | with prosperity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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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