The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 148

“Seize the maidens when they come with pails to milk you,” he said to others.

Who acts: maidens, mistress · What happens: seize, come, say · To what, where: maidens, milk, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, mistress), 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	_	2 Seize	punct
2	Seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maidens	det
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Seize	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Seize	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 pails	case
9	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 milk	mark
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 milk	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Seize	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 others	case
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize in a quote	infinitive		the maidens			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
2	come in a quote	present	maidens = maiden	milk you		with pails	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	mistress		others		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 148