The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 42
Winter days are bitter cold; Beware, beware of the suitor bold— Beware the more if he is old.”
Who acts: Winter days, Beauty · What happens: be, beware
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 (Winter days, Beauty), 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 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 days | compound |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 4 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cold | amod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 Beware | punct |
| 7 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beware | punct |
| 9 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 Beware | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bold | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bold | det |
| 12 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bold | compound |
| 13 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beware | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Beware | punct |
| 15 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 Beware | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 more | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 Beware | advmod |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 old | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 old | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 old | cop |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Beware | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Winter days | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beware | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | beware | infinitive | of the suitor bold | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | beware | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Beauty | old property | 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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