The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 40
Stand aside, and see what a real man can do.”
Who acts: you, real man · What happens: stand, see, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, real man), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 1 Stand | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 see | cc |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | aside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | can | a real man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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