The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 47

Tell me who you are, and tell me truly, or never will I ferry you to Tuonela.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, be, not ferry · To what, where: me, you, Tuonela · 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, I), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Tell	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 who	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 who	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	truly	truly	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ferry	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 ferry	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 ferry	advmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ferry	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ferry	nsubj
16	ferry	ferry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 ferry	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Tuonela	case
19	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ferry	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present	you				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me	truly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	not ferry	future	I	you	Tuonela		vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to tuonela=Destination

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 Land of Tuonela, sentence 47

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 47