The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 52

“Here are five rules for you to remember—yes, six which you must write down in your hearts and never, no, never, forget:

Who acts: five rules, you · What happens: be, remember, write down, not forget · To what, where: hearts

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five rules, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 rules	nummod
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Here	nsubj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 remember	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 remember	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remember	mark
9	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rules	acl
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
11	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Here	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 six	punct
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Here	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 write	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 write	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 write	aux
17	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 six	acl:relcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 write	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hearts	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hearts	nmod:poss
21	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 write	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 never	cc
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 Here	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
25	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Here	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 forget	punct
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 forget	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 forget	punct
29	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Here	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	five rules		six obl; here property	tree rules
2	remember in a quote	to-infinitive	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	write down in a quote	must		your hearts	which nsubj; you nsubj	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heart=Destination
4	not forget in a quote	infinitive	five rules not said here			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 Hero’s Return, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 52