The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 80
When you have finished the mixture and tested it, bring it hither to me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: finish, test, bring · To what, where: mixture, me
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 bring | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mixture | det |
| 6 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tested | cc |
| 8 | tested | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tested | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 11 bring | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · perfect | you | the mixture | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector mixture=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | test | past | you not said here | mixture | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | imperative | you not said here | mixture | me | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
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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