The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 102
Put your proud heads down, quit your hideous hissing, cease your wriggling and your writhing.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: put, quit, cease, hiss · To what, where: proud heads, hideous hissing, wriggling
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heads | nmod:poss |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heads | amod |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 quit | punct |
| 7 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hissing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hissing | amod |
| 10 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cease | punct |
| 12 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wriggling | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wriggling | wriggling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cease | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 writhing | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 writhing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wriggling | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | your proud heads | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | |||
| 2 | quit | infinitive | you not said here | your hideous hissing | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hissing=Source | ||||
| 3 | cease | infinitive | you not said here | your wriggling and your writhing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wriggling=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hiss | your | nom hissing «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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