The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 79
See that the water is ready, and put everything needful in the right place.
Who acts: you, water · What happens: see, be, put · To what, where: everything
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, water), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 ready | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 See | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 put | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needful | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the water | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | everything | needful property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent everything=Goal |
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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