The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 32
See, I have only to touch it with the toe of my boot and the deed is done.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, have, touch, do · To what, where: strength, deed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 touch | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 touch | mark |
| 7 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touch | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 toe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 toe | det |
| 11 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touch | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boot | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toe | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 done | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deed | det |
| 17 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 touch | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | I not said here | strength | with the toe of my boot | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with toe=Instrument | |||
| 4 | do | present · passive | the deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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