The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 24
Go, find him and ask him for what you need.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, find, ask, need · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ask | cc |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ask | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 need | nsubj |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | you not said here | man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | man | what obl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/24/