The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 37

Lead the blind ones kindly with your hands, bring the lame ones in sledges or on your backs, fetch the children, fetch the old and feeble, let not one be slighted or forgotten.”

Who acts: you · What happens: lead, bring, fetch, let, slight, forget · To what, where: blind ones, lame ones, sledges, children, old, one

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), 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	Lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lead	obj
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Lead	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lead	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bring	punct
10	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lead	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
12	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bring	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 sledges	case
15	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bring	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 backs	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 backs	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 backs	nmod:poss
19	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sledges	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fetch	punct
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lead	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fetch	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fetch	punct
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fetch	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 old	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fetch	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 feeble	cc
29	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 old	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
31	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lead	parataxis
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 one	advmod
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 slighted	nsubj:pass
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 slighted	aux:pass
35	slighted	slight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 let	ccomp
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 forgotten	cc
37	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 slighted	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lead	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Lead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	imperative	you not said here	the blind ones		with your hands; kindly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	bring	infinitive		the lame ones	sledges or your backs		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	fetch	infinitive		the children			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	fetch	present		the old			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Theme
5	let	infinitive					tree rules
6	slight	infinitive · passive		one			tree rules
7	forget	participle					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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 37