The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 90
You may cut the pine tree and the willow; you may cut the birch tree and the cedar; but turn not your edge against your master.”
Who acts: You · What happens: cut, not turn · To what, where: pine tree, birch tree, edge
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | aux |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 willow | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 willow | det |
| 9 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | aux |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cut | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cedar | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cedar | det |
| 19 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 turn | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 turn | cc |
| 22 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 turn | advmod |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 edge | nmod:poss |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turn | obj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 28 master | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | may | You | the pine tree and the willow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product | ||||
| 2 | cut | may | you | the birch tree and the cedar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product | ||||
| 3 | not turn | present | You not said here | your edge | against your master | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent edge=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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