The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 46
“Why will you choose to go with that penniless fellow—to bake his barley-cakes, to wash his grimy clothes, to wipe the sweat from his sooty face, to sweep his kitchen floor, to keep his tumble-down hut in order?”
Who acts: you · What happens: choose, go, bake, wash, wipe, sweep · To what, where: barley cakes, grimy clothes, sweat, sooty face, kitchen floor, down hut
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), 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 | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 choose | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 choose | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fellow | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fellow | det |
| 10 | penniless | penniless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 bake | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bake | mark |
| 14 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 choose | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cakes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cakes | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 barley | punct |
| 18 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bake | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wash | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wash | mark |
| 21 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bake | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grimy | grimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clothes | amod |
| 24 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 wash | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wipe | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wipe | mark |
| 27 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bake | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sweat | det |
| 29 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wipe | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 face | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 face | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sooty | sooty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 face | amod |
| 33 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wipe | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sweep | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 sweep | mark |
| 36 | sweep | sweep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 bake | parataxis |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 floor | nmod:poss |
| 38 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 floor | compound |
| 39 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sweep | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 keep | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 keep | mark |
| 42 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 36 sweep | conj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 hut | nmod:poss |
| 44 | tumble | tumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 down | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 tumble | punct |
| 46 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hut | compound |
| 47 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 keep | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 order | case |
| 49 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 keep | obl |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | with that penniless fellow | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with fellow=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | bake in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | man's barley cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 4 | wash in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | man's grimy clothes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wipe in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the sweat | man's sooty face | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme from face=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | sweep in a quote | to-infinitive | man's kitchen floor | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | |||||
| 7 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | man's down hut | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hut=Theme in order=Location |
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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