The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 20
There you shall be my queen; you shall rule my house, keep my kitchen, sit at the head of the table.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, rule, keep, sit · To what, where: queen, house, kitchen, head
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 you | expl |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 queen | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 queen | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 queen | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 queen | nmod:poss |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rule | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 rule | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 rule | aux |
| 10 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 queen | parataxis |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rule | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rule | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sit | punct |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rule | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sit | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 table | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 table | det |
| 24 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | you | my queen | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rule | shall | you | my house | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | my kitchen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | infinitive | you not said here | the head of the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location |
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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