The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 70
If you wish me to go home with you, you must pick up these fragments and build a boat from them.
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, go, pick up, build · To what, where: me, fragments, boat
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pick | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 pick | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pick | aux |
| 13 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pick | compound:prt |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 fragments | det |
| 16 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pick | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 build | cc |
| 18 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pick | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 build | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 build | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | with you; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pick up | must | you | this fragments | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Topic | ||||
| 4 | build | present | you not said here | a boat | from flowers = flower | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset boat=Product from they=Material |
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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