The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 31

Twelve furrows you must make lengthwise of the field, and twelve furrows you must make crosswise; and you must plough it deep, without touching either beam or handles.”

Who acts: Twelve furrows, you · What happens: make, plough, touch · To what, where: field, beam

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 (Twelve furrows, 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	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 furrows	nummod
2	furrows	furrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 make	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	lengthwise	lengthwise	ADV	_	9 field	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 furrows	nummod
13	furrows	furrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	conj
17	crosswise	crosswise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 plough	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plough	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 plough	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 plough	aux
22	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 plough	obj
24	deep	deep	ADV	_	22 plough	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 touching	punct
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	27 touching	mark
27	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 plough	advcl
28	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	29 beam	det
29	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touching	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 handles	cc
31	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 beam	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	must	Twelve furrows	the field	you nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset field=Product
2	make	must	twelve furrows		you nsubj; crosswise property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	plough	must	you	field	deep property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location
4	touch	gerund	you not said here	either beam or handles		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beam=Co-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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 31