The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 50

The duckling that I have cherished shall be yours, to sit on your knee, to nestle dove-like in your arms, to be the queen of your household, the mistress of your kitchen.”

Who acts: I, duckling · What happens: cherish, be, sit, nestle · To what, where: duckling, yours, knee, dove like, queen

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, duckling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duckling	det
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yours	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cherished	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cherished	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cherished	aux
6	cherished	cherish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 duckling	acl:relcl
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 yours	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 yours	cop
9	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sit	mark
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 yours	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 knee	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knee	nmod:poss
15	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nestle	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 nestle	mark
18	nestle	nestle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	conj
19	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 like	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 dove	punct
21	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nestle	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 arms	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 like	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 queen	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	29 queen	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 queen	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 queen	det
29	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 household	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 household	nmod:poss
32	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 queen	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mistress	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mistress	det
35	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 queen	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 kitchen	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 kitchen	nmod:poss
38	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mistress	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 yours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cherish	present · perfect	I	the duckling			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	is a	shall	the duckling	yours			tree rules
3	sit	to-infinitive			your knee		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location
4	nestle	to-infinitive		dove like in your arms			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location like=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		the queen		of your household; the mistress of your kitchen appos	tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 50