The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 56
Ask me no questions; but if you love me make for me the things I must have for my journey.
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: ask, love, make, have, journey · To what, where: questions, me, things
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, I, my), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | iobj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 questions | det |
| 4 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 love | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 things | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | no questions | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | the things | for me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Product for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | have | must | I | the things not said here | for my journey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 5 | journey | my | nom journey «act 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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