The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 69
Let the sun shine gently upon me, a wretched slave boy; but make it scorch and blister my master and my master’s household.
Who acts: you, sun · What happens: let, shine, make · To what, where: giver
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, sun), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shine | nsubj |
| 4 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 shine | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shine | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 10 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | compound |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | vocative |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | scorch | scorch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blister | cc |
| 19 | blister | blister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scorch | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 household | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 household | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 master | case |
| 26 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a wretched slave boy vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | the sun | upon me; gently property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | giver | scorch and blister obj; my master obj; my master's household conj | 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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