The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 84

“If Fire had seized you and sent you hither, your hair and beard would be singed, your eyebrows would be scorched, your feet would be blistered.

Who acts: Fire · What happens: seize, send, singe, scorch, blister · To what, where: you, hair, eyebrows, feet

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 (Fire), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 singed	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 seized	mark
3	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 seized	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	aux
5	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 singed	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 seized	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sent	iobj
10	hither	hither	ADV	_	8 sent	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 singed	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 beard	cc
15	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hair	conj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 singed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 singed	aux:pass
18	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scorched	punct
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyebrows	nmod:poss
21	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 scorched	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 scorched	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 scorched	aux:pass
24	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 singed	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blistered	punct
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 blistered	nsubj:pass
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 blistered	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 blistered	aux:pass
30	blistered	blister	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 scorched	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 singed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Fire	you			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	send in a quote	past	Fire not said here		you	hither property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	singe in a quote	would · passive		your hair and beard			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	scorch in a quote	would · passive		your eyebrows			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	blister in a quote	would · passive		your feet			tree rules

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 84

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 84