The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 29

All your magic shall come to naught, for you shall never steal the Maid of Beauty from her home land, never put her in your magic vessel, never carry her over the treacherous sea.”

Who acts: magic, you · What happens: come, not steal, not put, not carry · To what, where: naught, Maid, home land, magic, magic vessel, treacherous sea

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 magic	det:predet
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 magic	nmod:poss
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 naught	case
7	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 steal	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 steal	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 steal	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 steal	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 steal	advmod
13	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Maid	det
15	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 steal	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Beauty	case
17	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Maid	nmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 land	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 land	nmod:poss
20	home	home	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 land	amod
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steal	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 put	advmod
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 vessel	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 vessel	nmod:poss
28	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 vessel	amod
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carry	punct
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 carry	advmod
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	37 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sea	det
36	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sea	amod
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carry	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	shall	your magic		naught	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to naught=Initial_Location
2	not steal	shall	you	the Maid of Beauty	magic's home land	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent maid=Theme from land=Source
3	not put	infinitive	your magic not said here	magic	your magic vessel	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in vessel=Destination
4	not carry	infinitive	your magic not said here	magic	the treacherous sea	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 29