The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 69
Take the cheap thing away and bring us better torches, torches made of white wax, cleanly and beautiful.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, bring, make · To what, where: cheap thing, better torches, us, torches
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), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bring | cc |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 torches | amod |
| 10 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 torches | punct |
| 12 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 torches | conj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 torches | acl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wax | case |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wax | amod |
| 16 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cleanly | punct |
| 18 | cleanly | cleanly | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beautiful | cc |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cleanly | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | 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 | the cheap thing | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | better torches and torches | us | cleanly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination torch=Theme | ||
| 3 | make | participle | torches not said here | of white wax | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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