The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 36
Take him without using net or tackle and bring his head to me.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, use, tackle, bring · To what, where: king, net, head, me
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 using | mark |
| 4 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Take | advcl |
| 5 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 using | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 tackle | cc |
| 7 | tackle | tackle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | you not said here | net | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tackle | infinitive | you not said here | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | king's head | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to i=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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