The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 13
So get you to your smithy, kindle the fire in your furnace so long idle and cold, and forge me a keen-edged sword with which to fight wild men and savage beasts.”
Who acts: you · What happens: get, kindle, forge, edge, fight · To what, where: you, fire, furnace, edged sword, me, wild men
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 get | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 smithy | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kindle | punct |
| 8 | kindle | kindle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kindle | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 furnace | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 furnace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kindle | obl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 idle | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 idle | advmod |
| 16 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kindle | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cold | cc |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 idle | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forge | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forge | cc |
| 21 | forge | forge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 forge | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sword | det |
| 24 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 edged | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 keen | punct |
| 26 | edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sword | amod |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forge | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 fight | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 fight | mark |
| 31 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sword | acl:relcl |
| 32 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 men | amod |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fight | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beasts | cc |
| 35 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beasts | amod |
| 36 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 men | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | you | to your smithy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | kindle | infinitive | you not said here | the fire | your furnace | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | |||
| 3 | forge | infinitive | you not said here | a edged sword | me | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary sword=Product | |||
| 4 | edge | participle | keen compound | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | you not said here | wild men and savage beasts | with a edged sword | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-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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