The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 63
Then cut a whipstock from the ice in the gorge below you and leave no splinter.”
Who acts: you · What happens: cut, leave · To what, where: whipstock, ice, splinter
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 cut | advmod |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 whipstock | det |
| 4 | whipstock | whipstock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gorge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gorge | det |
| 10 | gorge | gorge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ice | nmod |
| 11 | below | below | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 gorge | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 splinter | det |
| 16 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | imperative | you not said here | a whipstock | the ice in the gorge below you | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset whipstock=Product from ice=Material | ||
| 2 | leave | present | you not said here | no splinter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Theme |
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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