The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 105
If you try again to deceive me, I will command the East Wind to fall upon your pretty vessel and sink it in the sea.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: try, deceive, command, fall, sink · To what, where: me, East Wind, pretty vessel, vessel, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 try | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 try | nsubj |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 command | advcl |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 try | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 deceive | mark |
| 6 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 deceive | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 command | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 command | aux |
| 11 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wind | det |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wind | compound |
| 14 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 command | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fall | mark |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 command | advcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 vessel | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vessel | amod |
| 20 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sink | cc |
| 22 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fall | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sink | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sink | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 command | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try a condition, not said to happen | present | you | again | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | deceive not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | command | future | I | the East Wind | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | I not said here | your pretty vessel | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon vessel=Location | ||||
| 5 | sink | infinitive | I not said here | vessel | the sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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