The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 79
Bake them, boil them, mix them, brew them into a magic ointment that will heal all manner of wounds.
Who acts: you, magic ointment · What happens: bake, boil, mix, brew, heal · To what, where: herbs, magic ointment, manner
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magic ointment), 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 | Bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bake | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boil | punct |
| 4 | boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bake | conj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 boil | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mix | punct |
| 7 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bake | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mix | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brew | punct |
| 10 | brew | brew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bake | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brew | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 ointment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ointment | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ointment | amod |
| 15 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brew | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 heal | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 heal | aux |
| 18 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ointment | acl:relcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 manner | det |
| 20 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heal | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wounds | case |
| 22 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 manner | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | imperative | you not said here | herbs = herb | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | ||||
| 2 | boil | infinitive | you not said here | herbs = herb | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mix | infinitive | you not said here | herbs = herb | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | brew | infinitive | you not said here | herbs = herb | a magic ointment | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | |||
| 5 | heal | future | a magic ointment | all manner of wounds | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent manner=Patient |
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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