The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 55

If Iron had smitten you I would see blood trickling from your wounds; your face would be scarlet; your hands would be crimson.

Who acts: Iron, I, blood, face, hands, your · What happens: smite, see, trickle, be, wound · To what, where: you, blood, wounds

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 (Iron, I, blood, face), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 smitten	mark
2	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 smitten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smitten	aux
4	smitten	smite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 scarlet	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 smitten	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 smitten	parataxis
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
10	trickling	trickle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 blood	acl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 wounds	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wounds	nmod:poss
13	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trickling	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 smitten	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scarlet	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 scarlet	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 scarlet	cop
19	scarlet	scarlet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 crimson	punct
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 crimson	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 crimson	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 crimson	cop
25	crimson	crimson	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 scarlet	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 scarlet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smite a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Iron	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
2	see	would	I	blood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
3	trickle	gerund	blood not said here		your wounds		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wound=Source
4	is	would	your face			scarlet property	tree rules
5	is	would	your hands			crimson property	tree rules
6	wound		your				nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 55