The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 17

He sent him to pick berries in the marshes; but the worthless fellow picked only the green fruit and trampled upon the ripe.

Who acts: slave, worthless fellow · What happens: send, pick, trample · To what, where: boy, berries, marshes, green fruit, worthless fellow

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 (slave, worthless fellow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pick	mark
5	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pick	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 marshes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marshes	det
9	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pick	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 trampled	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 trampled	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
13	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trampled	nsubj:pass
15	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fellow	acl
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 fruit	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fruit	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fruit	amod
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picked	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 trampled	cc
21	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sent	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 ripe	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ripe	det
24	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trampled	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	slave	boy			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	pick	to-infinitive	slave not said here	berries	the marshes		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
3	pick	participle	the worthless fellow not said here	the green fruit			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
4	trample	participle · passive		the worthless fellow		upon the ripe	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 Slave Boy, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 17