The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 108
Turn back while you can, and think not to visit my father in his strong castle.
Who acts: you · What happens: turn back, think, not visit · To what, where: father, strong castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 can | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 think | cc |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 visit | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 visit | mark |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | ccomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visit | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 castle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visit | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | imperative | you not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not visit | to-infinitive | my father | father's strong castle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-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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