The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 31
You shall bake my honey cakes, fill my cups with barley-water, sing at my table.
Who acts: You · What happens: bake, fill, sing · To what, where: honey cakes, cups, table
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bake | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bake | aux |
| 3 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cakes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cakes | compound |
| 6 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bake | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fill | punct |
| 8 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bake | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cups | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fill | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 12 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 barley | punct |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fill | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sing | punct |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bake | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 table | nmod:poss |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | shall | You | my honey cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 2 | fill | infinitive | You not said here | my cups | with barley water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cup=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | You not said here | my table | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=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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