The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 63
I will fashion the pretty girdles for you, I will make the rings and the earrings and the brooch and the comb, and I will bring them all to you before the sun goes down.”
Who acts: I, sun · What happens: fashion, make, bring, go down · To what, where: pretty girdles, rings, girdles, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sun), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fashion | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fashion | aux |
| 3 | fashion | fashion | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girdles | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girdles | amod |
| 6 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fashion | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fashion | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fashion | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rings | det |
| 14 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 earrings | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earrings | det |
| 17 | earrings | earring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rings | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brooch | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brooch | det |
| 20 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rings | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 comb | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 comb | det |
| 23 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brooch | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bring | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bring | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 bring | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bring | aux |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fashion | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bring | obj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 bring | obl |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 goes | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sun | det |
| 35 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 goes | nsubj |
| 36 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bring | advcl |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 goes | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fashion | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fashion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fashion | future | I | the pretty girdles | for you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent girdle=Material for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | make | future | I | the rings and the earrings and the brooch and the comb | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product | ||||
| 3 | bring | future | I | girdles = girdle | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 4 | go down | present | the sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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