The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 60
“But I will perform it; I will plough the field of serpents, and no man nor maiden shall call me a coward.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, man · What happens: perform, plough, call · To what, where: courage, field, Ilmarinen · 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 (Ilmarinen, man), 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 | _ | 5 perform | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 perform | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 perform | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 perform | aux |
| 5 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 perform | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 plough | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 plough | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 plough | aux |
| 10 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 perform | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plough | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 serpents | case |
| 14 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 field | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 call | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 call | nsubj |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 maiden | cc |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | conj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 call | aux |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plough | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 call | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 coward | det |
| 25 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 call | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 perform | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 perform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform in a quote | future | Ilmarinen | courage | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plough in a quote | future | Ilmarinen | the field of serpents | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call in a quote | shall | no man nor maiden | Ilmarinen | a coward xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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