The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 104
Dare not touch me, dare not threaten me, lest Jumala smite you with his swift and flashing arrows!”
Who acts: you · What happens: not dare, not touch, not threaten, smite · To what, where: me, you
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), 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 | Dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Dare | advmod |
| 3 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Dare | xcomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 touch | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dare | punct |
| 6 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Dare | parataxis |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dare | advmod |
| 8 | threaten | threaten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dare | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 threaten | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smite | punct |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 12 Jumala | case |
| 12 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 smite | obl |
| 13 | smite | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dare | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 smite | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 swift | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 swift | nmod:poss |
| 17 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smite | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arrows | cc |
| 19 | flashing | flashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrows | compound |
| 20 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swift | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dare | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | imperative | you not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not touch | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | not dare | infinitive | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not threaten | infinitive | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | smite | present | you | lest Jumala; with Jumala's swift and flashing arrows | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with swift=Instrument |
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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