The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 105

“As a minstrel and magician, He would bless this land’s condition; He would fill the fields with cattle, Make our treasure boxes rattle; He would fill the mines with metal, Fill each pot and fill each kettle; He would fill the lanes with flowers, Bless each day, bless all the hours.

Who acts: Creator, treasure boxes, you, land · What happens: bless, fill, make, rattle, condition · To what, where: condition, fields, mines, pot, kettle, lanes

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Creator, treasure boxes, you, land), 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	_	10 bless	punct
2	As	as	ADP	_	4 minstrel	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minstrel	det
4	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bless	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 magician	cc
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 minstrel	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 minstrel	punct
8	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bless	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bless	aux
10	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 Bless	advcl
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 condition	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 land	case
14	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bless	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fill	punct
16	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fill	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fill	aux
18	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bless	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fields	det
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fill	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 cattle	case
22	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fill	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Make	punct
24	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fill	conj
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 boxes	nmod:poss
26	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boxes	compound
27	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rattle	nsubj
28	rattle	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Make	xcomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 fill	punct
30	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fill	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fill	aux
32	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bless	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mines	det
34	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fill	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 metal	case
36	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fill	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Fill	punct
38	Fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bless	conj
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 pot	det
40	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Fill	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fill	cc
42	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 Fill	conj
43	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	44 kettle	det
44	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fill	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 fill	punct
46	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fill	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 fill	aux
48	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bless	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 lanes	det
50	lanes	lane	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fill	obj
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 flowers	case
52	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 fill	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Bless	punct
54	Bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
55	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	56 day	det
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 Bless	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 bless	punct
58	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	54 Bless	conj
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 hours	det:predet
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 hours	det
61	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 bless	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 Bless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bless in a quote	would	Creator	this land's condition		as a minstrel and magician	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent condition=Theme as minstrel=Attribute
2	fill in a quote	would	Creator	the fields		with cattle	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent field=Patient with cattle=Instrument
3	make in a quote	present	Creator not said here				tree rules
4	rattle in a quote	present	our treasure boxes				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fill in a quote	would	Creator	the mines		with metal	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mine=Patient with metal=Instrument
6	fill in a quote	infinitive	Creator not said here	each pot			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
7	fill in a quote	present	Creator not said here	each kettle			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient
8	fill in a quote	would	Creator	the lanes		with flowers	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lane=Patient with flower=Instrument
9	bless in a quote	imperative	you not said here		day		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	bless in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		hour		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	condition in a quote		this land				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 105