The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 21
Make yourselves very small and do as I bid you!”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, do, bid · To what, where: yourselves, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | conj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 bid | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bid | nsubj |
| 9 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bid | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | yourselves | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourselves=Product | |||
| 2 | do | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | past | I | you | tree rules |
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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