The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 59

Tell me why and how you have come to our lovely land and to Pohyola, the sweetest of homes.”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, come · To what, where: me, lovely land · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 land	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 land	nmod:poss
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 land	amod
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Pohyola	cc
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Pohyola	case
15	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 land	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sweetest	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sweetest	det
18	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 Pohyola	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 homes	case
20	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sweetest	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	come	present · perfect	you			our lovely land and Pohyola the sweetest of homes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 59