The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 63
“Fetch it quickly that we may see the hero’s eyes whether they are blue or grayish, whether they are green or brownish.”
Who acts: you, we, eyes · What happens: fetch, see, be · To what, where: pine, eyes
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 (you, we, eyes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fetch | punct |
| 2 | Fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Fetch | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 Fetch | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Fetch | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hero | det |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 hero | case |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 blue | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blue | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 blue | cop |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 see | advcl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 grayish | cc |
| 18 | grayish | grayish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blue | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 green | punct |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 green | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 green | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 green | cop |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fetch | parataxis |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 brownish | cc |
| 25 | brownish | brownish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 green | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fetch | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch in a quote | imperative | you not said here | pine | quickly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | may | we | the hero's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | eyes = eye | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | eyes = eye not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | eyes = eye | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | eyes = eye not said here | 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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