The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 15

“Just so,” rejoined the aged one; “and you surely remember the noble reindeer and the swift sledge that I lent him, so that he might return to his home land?”

Who acts: you, Maid, Beauty · What happens: rejoin, remember, lend, return · To what, where: aged one, noble reindeer, swift sledge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Maid, Beauty), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 rejoined	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 rejoined	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rejoined	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rejoined	punct
6	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rejoined	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remember	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
14	surely	surely	ADV	_	15 remember	advmod
15	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoined	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reindeer	det
17	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reindeer	amod
18	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remember	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sledge	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sledge	det
21	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sledge	amod
22	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reindeer	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lent	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lent	nsubj
25	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sledge	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lent	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 return	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 return	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 return	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 return	aux
32	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 remember	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 land	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 land	nmod:poss
35	home	home	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 land	amod
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 return	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rejoined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoin	past		the aged one		tree rules
2	remember in a quote	present	you	the noble reindeer and the swift sledge	surely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme
3	lend in a quote	past	the Maid of Beauty = maid	the swift sledge	Beauty obj	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient he=Theme
4	return in a quote	might	Beauty		to Beauty's home land result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 15