The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 4
Speak no word, make no sound to break the magic spell, but follow me and do my bidding.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: speak, make, break, follow, do, bid · To what, where: word, sound, magic spell, me, bidding · 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, my), 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Speak | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Speak | parataxis |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 break | mark |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spell | det |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spell | amod |
| 12 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follow | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 follow | cc |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Speak | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 follow | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 follow | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | no word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | no sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | |||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | the magic spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient | |||||
| 4 | follow | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | you not said here | my bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | bid | my | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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