The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 54
Watch them well, and when the day is almost done, bring them home.
Who acts: you · What happens: watch, do, bring · To what, where: oxen
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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Watch | obj |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Watch | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 done | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 done | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 done | advmod |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Watch | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 bring | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | oxen = ox | well property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present · passive | you not said here | day | almost property | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | oxen = ox | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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