The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 42

I will give the milk and the honey to the younger man, to Ilmarinen, if in truth he has come to woo me.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: give, come, woo · To what, where: milk, younger man, truth, me

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 (I, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 milk	det
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 honey	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 honey	det
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 milk	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Ilmarinen	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Ilmarinen	case
15	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 man	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 truth	case
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 give	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 woo	mark
24	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 woo	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	future	I	the milk and the honey	the younger man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to man=Recipient
2	come a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	man			truth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in truth=Location
3	woo	to-infinitive	man not said here	me			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 42