The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 77
Grind flour, grind salt, grind wealth, grind all things good for Pohyola, but do not smother us with your bounties.”
Who acts: you · What happens: grind, not smother · To what, where: flour, salt, wealth, things, 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), 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 | Grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grind | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grind | punct |
| 4 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grind | parataxis |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grind | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grind | punct |
| 7 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grind | conj |
| 8 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grind | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grind | punct |
| 10 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grind | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grind | obj |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Pohyola | case |
| 15 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 good | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smother | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 smother | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 smother | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 smother | advmod |
| 20 | smother | smother | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grind | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 smother | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 bounties | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bounties | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bounties | bounty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smother | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grind | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | imperative | you not said here | flour | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grind | present | salt | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grind | present | wealth | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient | |||||
| 4 | grind | present | all things | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not smother | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | us | with your bounties | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Destination with bounty=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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