The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 87
Speak with clean lips and say truly why you have come hither with healthy body and with red heart beating lustily.”
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, say, come, beat · 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 lips | case |
| 3 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lips | amod |
| 4 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Speak | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 say | cc |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Speak | conj |
| 7 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 come | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 say | ccomp |
| 12 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 body | amod |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beating | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heart | amod |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beating | obl |
| 20 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 come | conj |
| 21 | lustily | lustily | ADV | _ | 20 beating | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | with clean lips | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lip=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | truly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | you | with healthy body; hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | you not said here | with red heart; lustily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heart=Theme |
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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