The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 27
“I will drain the sea, I will level the mountains, I will snatch the moon from its place in the sky if you so command me.
Who acts: hero, you · What happens: drain, level, snatch, command · To what, where: sea, mountains, moon, place, hero · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hero, 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 | _ | 4 drain | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 drain | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drain | aux |
| 4 | drain | drain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drain | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 level | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 level | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 level | aux |
| 10 | level | level | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drain | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 level | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snatch | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 snatch | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 snatch | aux |
| 16 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drain | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snatch | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 place | nmod:poss |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snatch | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sky | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 command | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 command | nsubj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 command | advmod |
| 28 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 snatch | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 command | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drain in a quote | future | the hero = hero | the sea | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sea=Source | ||||
| 2 | level in a quote | future | the hero = hero | the mountains | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | snatch in a quote | future | the hero = hero | the moon | task's place in the sky | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent moon=Theme from place=Source | |||
| 4 | command in a quote | infinitive | you | the hero = hero | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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