The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 49
“Bring hither my stool,” says the wife and helpmate, “and give me the new pail of polished cedar.
Who acts: wife · What happens: bring, say, give, polish · To what, where: stool, new pail, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 3 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 Bring | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stool | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 helpmate | cc |
| 12 | helpmate | helpmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pail | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pail | amod |
| 20 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cedar | case |
| 22 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 cedar | amod |
| 23 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pail | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | my stool | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the wife and helpmate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | the wife and helpmate not said here | the new pail of polished cedar | the wife and helpmate = wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pail=Theme | |||
| 4 | polish in a quote | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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