The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 80
And you should see that his clothes are mended and brushed and fit for him to wear.”
Who acts: you, fire · What happens: see, mend, brush, fit, wear · To what, where: clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, fire), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 mended | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 mended | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mended | aux:pass |
| 9 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 see | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brushed | cc |
| 11 | brushed | brush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mended | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fit | cc |
| 13 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mended | conj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 wear | mark |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wear | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wear | mark |
| 17 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fit | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | should | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mend | present · passive | fire's clothes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | brush | participle | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fit | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wear | to-infinitive | fire | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/80/