The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 53
See that you guard them all to keep them safe from wily wolves and lurking bears.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, guard, keep, lurk · To what, where: oxen, wily wolves · 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 (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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 guard | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 guard | nsubj |
| 4 | guard | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guard | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 guard | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 wolves | case |
| 12 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wolves | amod |
| 13 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bears | cc |
| 15 | lurking | lurk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 bears | amod |
| 16 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wolves | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | guard | present | you | oxen = ox | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | oxen = ox | wily wolves and lurking bears | safe property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from wolf=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | lurk | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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