The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 54
Go at once to your magic smithy and forge a fiery eagle with flaming wings and iron talons.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, forge · To what, where: magic smithy, fiery eagle
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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 smithy | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smithy | amod |
| 7 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forge | cc |
| 9 | forge | forge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eagle | det |
| 11 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eagle | amod |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forge | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wings | case |
| 14 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wings | compound |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eagle | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 talons | cc |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talons | compound |
| 18 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wings | conj |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | your magic smithy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to smithy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | forge | infinitive | you not said here | a fiery eagle | with flaming wings and iron talons | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Product |
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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