The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 16
“Eat, drink, and be refreshed.”
Who acts: you · What happens: eat, drink, refresh
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 2 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
| 4 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Eat | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 refreshed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 refreshed | cc |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 8 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Eat | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | refresh in a quote | infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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