The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 58
You must plough the field of serpents, or I will never, never be your bride.”
Who acts: You · What happens: plough, not be · To what, where: field, 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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 plough | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 plough | aux |
| 3 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plough | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 serpents | case |
| 7 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 field | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 will | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 will | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 will | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 plough | conj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 will | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bride | punct |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 bride | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bride | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bride | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plough | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plough | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 plough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plough | must | You | the field of serpents | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not is a | infinitive | your bride | your 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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