The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 65
Go thither and make for yourself a golden plough wherewith to furrow the field of serpents.
Who acts: you, golden plough · What happens: go, make, furrow · To what, where: golden plough, field
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, golden plough), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 make | cc |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 make | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plough | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plough | amod |
| 9 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 10 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 furrow | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 furrow | mark |
| 12 | furrow | furrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 furrow | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 serpents | case |
| 16 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 field | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | thither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | you not said here | a golden plough | for yourself | tree rules | |||
| 3 | furrow | to-infinitive | a golden plough not said here | the field of serpents | wherewith property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
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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