The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 20
I myself will milk her, and I will give it to you, warm and frothing and fit for a queen.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, froth, fit · To what, where: milk, you
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 milk | nsubj |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 milk | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 milk | aux |
| 4 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 milk | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 milk | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 warm | punct |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 give | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 frothing | cc |
| 17 | frothing | froth | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 warm | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fit | cc |
| 19 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 queen | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 queen | det |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fit | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 milk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | milk | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | froth | gerund | I not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fit | present | I not said here | for a queen | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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