The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 21
The Maid of Beauty is waiting for you, Ilmarinen, but before you take her your courage must be tested, you must perform the task that I require of you.”
Who acts: Maid, you, I · What happens: wait, take, test, perform, require · To what, where: Ilmarinen, Maid, courage, task
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 (Maid, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Maid | det |
| 2 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Beauty | case |
| 4 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Maid | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waiting | aux |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 waiting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 10 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 perform | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 perform | cc |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 perform | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 courage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 tested | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tested | aux:pass |
| 21 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 take | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 perform | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 perform | aux |
| 25 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waiting | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 task | det |
| 27 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perform | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 require | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 require | nsubj |
| 30 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 task | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 require | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 perform | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | the Maid of Beauty | Ilmarinen | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | present | you | Maid | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | test | must · passive | your courage | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perform | must | you | the task | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme | ||||
| 5 | require | present | I | the task | of you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Precondition |
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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