The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 106
If you fail to tell me the truth, I will cause the waves to rise up and swallow you!
Who acts: you, I, waves · What happens: fail, not tell, cause, rise up, swallow · To what, where: truth, me, waves, you · 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, waves), 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 fail | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fail | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fail | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cause | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | aux |
| 12 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waves | det |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cause | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rise | mark |
| 16 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cause | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rise | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swallow | cc |
| 19 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rise | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 swallow | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | the truth | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 3 | cause | future | I | the waves | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rise up | to-infinitive | the waves not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | swallow | infinitive | the waves not said here | you | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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