The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 69
See, I break them into splinters and I throw the fragments at your feet.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, break, throw · To what, where: flowers, splinters, fragments, feet · 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, I), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 splinters | case |
| 7 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 break | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 throw | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 throw | nsubj |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 break | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fragments | det |
| 12 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 throw | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 throw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | break | present | I | flowers = flower | into splinters result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into splinter=Result | |||
| 3 | throw | present | I | the fragments | your feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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