The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 77

And when you have curried him and smoothed his shining hair, cover him with a soft blanket and leave him alone, locking the stable door behind you.”

Who acts: you · What happens: curry, smooth, shine, cover, leave, lock · To what, where: steed, shining hair, stable door

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 smoothed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 curried	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 curried	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 curried	aux
5	curried	curry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 smoothed	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 curried	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 smoothed	cc
8	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hair	nmod:poss
10	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hair	amod
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smoothed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cover	punct
13	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 smoothed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cover	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 blanket	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blanket	det
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 blanket	amod
18	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cover	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leave	cc
20	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smoothed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 leave	obj
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 leave	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 locking	punct
24	locking	lock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 leave	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
26	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 door	amod
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 locking	obj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 locking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 smoothed	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 smoothed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	curry	present · perfect	you	steed			vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	smooth	past		steed's shining hair			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cover	infinitive			steed	with a soft blanket	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with blanket=Theme
5	leave	present		steed		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	lock	gerund		the stable door		behind you	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 77