The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 111
“If you will make the magic Sampo for me, I promise to send you home at once.
Who acts: you, gray woman · What happens: make, promise, send · To what, where: magic Sampo, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gray woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sampo | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sampo | compound |
| 8 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 promise | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 promise | nsubj |
| 13 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 send | mark |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 promise | xcomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 send | iobj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 send | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 send | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | future | you | the magic Sampo | for the gray woman = woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sampo=Product for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | the gray woman = woman | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the gray woman = woman not said here | you | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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