The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 147

If you will permit me to return to my dear home land, to the Land of Heroes, I will send him to you without delay.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: permit, return, send · To what, where: me, dear home land, Ilmarinen, 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, I), 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	_	4 permit	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 permit	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 permit	aux
4	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 send	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 permit	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 return	mark
7	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 permit	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 land	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 land	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 land	amod
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 land	compound
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Land	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Land	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Land	det
16	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Heroes	case
18	Heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Land	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 permit	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 send	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 send	aux
22	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 send	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 send	obl
26	without	without	ADP	_	27 delay	case
27	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 send	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 send	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	permit a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			my dear home land	to the Land of Heroes	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location to land=Destination
3	send	future	I	Ilmarinen	you		without delay	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Destination

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, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 147

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 147