The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 122
Come and give life to this precious maiden; fill her veins with blood, give warmth to her body, sight to her eyes, hearing to her ears!”
Who acts: you · What happens: come, give, fill, hear · To what, where: life, precious maiden, veins, warmth, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 give | cc |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 maiden | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 maiden | det |
| 7 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maiden | amod |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fill | punct |
| 10 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 veins | nmod:poss |
| 12 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fill | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fill | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fill | conj |
| 17 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warmth | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sight | punct |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warmth | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hearing | punct |
| 27 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 give | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 ears | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 ears | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hearing | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | life | this precious maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to maiden=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fill | infinitive | maid's veins | with blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vein=Patient with blood=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | give | present | warmth and sight | maid's eyes | to maid's body | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent warmth=Theme to eye=Recipient | |||
| 5 | hear | gerund | to maid's ears | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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