The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 101
Come hither and see the treasures that I have in my boat, and listen to a wonderful story.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, see, have, listen · To what, where: treasures, boat
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. 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), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 treasures | det |
| 6 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 have | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 boat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 listen | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 listen | cc |
| 15 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | the treasures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | the treasures | my boat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 4 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | to a wonderful story | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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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