The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 50
I swore by anvil and tongs, by hammer and smoke, by forge and fire, that I would some day win you to be my bride.
Who acts: I · What happens: swear, win, be · To what, where: you, bride
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 swore | nsubj |
| 2 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 anvil | case |
| 4 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swore | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tongs | cc |
| 6 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 anvil | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hammer | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hammer | case |
| 9 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swore | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smoke | cc |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hammer | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forge | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 forge | case |
| 14 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hammer | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fire | cc |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forge | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 win | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 would | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 would | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 win | aux |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 win | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 swore | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 win | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 bride | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bride | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bride | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 win | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | I | by anvil and tongs; by hammer and smoke and forge and fire | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | win | would | I not said here | you | day | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | my bride | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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