The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 62
I asked her then to go with me to the Land of Heroes, to be the queen of my kitchen, to bake my honey-cakes, to fill my cup with barley water, to sing at my fireside.
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, go, be, bake, fill, sing · To what, where: Mistress, Land, queen, honey cakes, cup, fireside · 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 (I), 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 | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Land | det |
| 11 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Heroes | case |
| 13 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Land | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 queen | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 queen | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 queen | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 queen | det |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 kitchen | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 queen | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bake | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 bake | mark |
| 24 | bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | parataxis |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cakes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cakes | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 honey | punct |
| 28 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bake | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fill | punct |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 fill | mark |
| 31 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 bake | conj |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cup | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fill | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 water | case |
| 35 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 water | compound |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fill | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sing | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 sing | mark |
| 39 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 fill | conj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 fireside | case |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 42 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sing | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | I | Mistress | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Land of Heroes | then | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the queen | of my kitchen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bake | to-infinitive | my honey cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | |||||
| 5 | fill | to-infinitive | my cup | with barley water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cup=Patient with water=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | my fireside | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fireside=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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