The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 22
“Come down and sit in this sledge by my side.”
Who acts: you · What happens: come down, sit · To what, where: sledge
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sit | cc |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sledge | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sledge | det |
| 8 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sit | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down in a quote | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present | you not said here | this sledge | by my side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sledge=Location |
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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