The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 51
“If you are indeed a wizard,” she said, “show me some of your magic arts.
Who acts: you, Maid · What happens: be, say, show · To what, where: wizard, some, Maid · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Maid), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 wizard | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wizard | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wizard | cop |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 wizard | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wizard | det |
| 7 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wizard | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wizard | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 show | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 arts | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arts | amod |
| 20 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | a wizard | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | infinitive | some of your magic arts | Maid | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Topic |
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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