The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 90
You have in mind some trick of cunning, and you shall sail no farther in your pretty boat until you tell me truly what that trick is.”
Who acts: You, trick · What happens: have, sail, tell, be, trick · To what, where: mind, pretty boat, me, cunning · 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, trick), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 mind | case |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 trick | det |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cunning | case |
| 8 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trick | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sail | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sail | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sail | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sail | aux |
| 13 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 farther | det |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 sail | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boat | amod |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sail | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sail | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | iobj |
| 24 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 25 what | advmod |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 trick | det |
| 27 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | cop |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sail | shall | you | your pretty boat | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that trick | truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | trick | cunning | nom trick «act transitive»: of=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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