The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 19
You shall have the first cup of milk that is taken from Brown Bossy to-night.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, take · To what, where: first cup, milk
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 cup | amod |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 milk | case |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cup | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 milk | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Bossy | case |
| 13 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Bossy | amod |
| 14 | Bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 taken | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Bossy | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | the first cup of milk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | present · passive | milk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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