The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 93

Fain would I make everything clear, but I dare not tell it to you where you stand: the fishes would hear me and carry the secret to every corner of the sea; the birds would hear me and convey the news to every land under the sun.”

Who acts: Fain, I, you, fishes, birds · What happens: make, tell, stand, hear, carry, convey · To what, where: everything, meaning, you, me, secret, corner · 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 (Fain, I, you, fishes), 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	Fain	Fain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 make	obj
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
10	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dare	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 stand	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 stand	nsubj
18	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fishes	det
21	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hear	aux
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stand	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hear	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carry	cc
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hear	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 secret	det
28	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 corner	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 corner	det
31	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 corner	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 hear	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 birds	det
37	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 hear	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hear	aux
39	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	parataxis
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 hear	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 convey	cc
42	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 hear	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 news	det
44	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 convey	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 land	case
46	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	47 land	det
47	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 convey	obl
48	under	under	ADP	_	50 sun.	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sun.	det
50	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 land	nmod
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	would	Fain	everything			I nsubj; clear property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Product
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	meaning	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient
3	stand	present	you					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	would	the fishes	me				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	carry	infinitive	the fishes not said here	the secret		every corner of the sea		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent secret=Theme to corner=Destination
6	hear	would	the birds	me				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7	convey	infinitive	the birds not said here	the news	every land under the sun.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to land=Recipient

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 93

The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 93