The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 56
Bring them home and drive the milkers into the paddock; then call loudly, and I will come down with the milkmaids to milk them.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, drive, call, come down · To what, where: oxen, milkers, paddock · 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, I), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drive | cc |
| 5 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 milkers | det |
| 7 | milkers | milker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drive | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 paddock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 paddock | det |
| 10 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drive | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 call | advmod |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | parataxis |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 call | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 call | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 milkmaids | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 milkmaids | det |
| 23 | milkmaids | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 come | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 milk | mark |
| 25 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 milk | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | oxen = ox | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive | infinitive | you not said here | the milkers | the paddock | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milker=Theme into paddock=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | call | infinitive | then | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come down | future | I | with the milkmaids; milk oxen advcl; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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