The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 67
Then go and do the task my mother requires of you.”
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: go, do, require · To what, where: task
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, mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 do | cc |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 task | det |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 requires | nsubj |
| 9 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 task | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 requires | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | the task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | require | present | my mother | the task not said here | of you | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme task=Precondition |
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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