The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 128
And now, if I promise to send you safe home, will you try your magic power and forge me such a mill?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: promise, send, try, forge · To what, where: safe home, you, magic power, mill, me
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 (I, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 promise | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 promise | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 promise | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nsubj |
| 6 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 send | mark |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promise | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 send | iobj |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 try | nsubj |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promise | parataxis |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 power | nmod:poss |
| 17 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 power | compound |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 try | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forge | cc |
| 20 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forge | obj |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 mill | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mill | det |
| 24 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forge | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | now | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | safe home | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination home=Theme | |||
| 3 | try | future | you | your magic power | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | forge | infinitive | you not said here | such mill | me | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary mill=Product |
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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