The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 70
Fetch water and fill the pails and the tubs, for I shall need not a little of it.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: fetch, fill, not need · To what, where: water, pails, little
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 (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 | Fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fetch | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fill | cc |
| 4 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fetch | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pails | det |
| 6 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fill | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tubs | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tubs | det |
| 9 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pails | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 need | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 need | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 need | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 need | aux |
| 14 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fetch | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 need | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 need | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 little | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | imperative | you not said here | water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | infinitive | you not said here | the pails and the tubs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not need | shall | I | a little of water | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot little=Theme |
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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