The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 79
“I will dress it, and polish the bones, and make of it a great chair wherein you can sit on winter evenings, feeling yourself the queen of all that is around you.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, you, that · What happens: dress, polish, make, sit, feel, be · To what, where: manner, bones, great chair, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ilmarinen, you, that), 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 | _ | 4 dress | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dress | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 dress | aux |
| 4 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dress | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 polish | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 polish | cc |
| 8 | polish | polish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dress | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bones | det |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 polish | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dress | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 chair | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chair | amod |
| 18 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | xcomp |
| 19 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 sit | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 sit | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sit | aux |
| 22 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 evenings | case |
| 24 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 evenings | compound |
| 25 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sit | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 feeling | punct |
| 27 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sit | advcl |
| 28 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 feeling | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 queen | det |
| 30 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feeling | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 queen | nmod |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 you | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 you | cop |
| 35 | around | around | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 feeling | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dress | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress in a quote | future | Ilmarinen | manner | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | polish in a quote | infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | the bones | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | a great chair | of manner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 4 | sit in a quote | can | you | evening | wherein property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | feel in a quote | gerund | you not said here | yourself | the queen of all obj | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme queen=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | that | around you | 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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