The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 166
Send me the wizard, the prince of smiths, and fail not, lest my curses follow you and blight your life.”
Who acts: you, curses, my · What happens: send, not fail, follow, blight, curse · To what, where: wizard, me, you, life
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, curses, my), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wizard | det |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wizard | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 smiths | case |
| 9 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prince | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fail | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fail | cc |
| 12 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Send | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fail | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 follow | punct |
| 15 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 follow | mark |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 curses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | curses | curse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 follow | nsubj |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Send | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 follow | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blight | cc |
| 21 | blight | blight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 follow | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blight | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | the wizard | me | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination wizard=Theme | |||
| 2 | not fail | present | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | follow | present | my curses | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blight | infinitive | my curses not said here | your life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 5 | curse | my | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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