The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 11
“So, bring hither the great bull of Carelia and let him be slaughtered.
Who acts: you, bull · What happens: bring, let, slaughter · To what, where: great bull, bull
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 (you, bull), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 So | punct |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bull | amod |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Carelia | case |
| 10 | Carelia | Carelia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bull | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 slaughtered | aux:pass |
| 15 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 let | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the great bull of Carelia | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bull=Destination | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | bull | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slaughter in a quote | infinitive · passive | bull not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
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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