The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 54
Come sit beside me in my sledge of magic, and I will carry you swiftly, safely to my own country, to my own dear fireside.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, sit, carry · To what, where: sledge, you, own country
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, 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | xcomp |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sit | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sledge | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sit | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 magic | case |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sledge | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carry | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sit | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 carry | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 country | punct |
| 18 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 22 country | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 country | amod |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fireside | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 fireside | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fireside | amod |
| 27 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fireside | amod |
| 28 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | you not said here | my sledge of magic | beside me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location | |||
| 3 | carry | future | I | you | my own country | to my own dear fireside; swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination |
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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