The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 49
Let no false and foolish fears appall you, Come from out the crevices that hide you, Leave the worthless stones that are beside you, Leave the earth that lies around, above you, And come with me, for I do dearly love you.”
Who acts: you, false fears, crevices, worthless stones, earth, I · What happens: let, appall, come, hide, leave, be · To what, where: you, crevices, worthless stones, earth, dearly love
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, false fears, crevices, worthless stones), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 fears | det |
| 3 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fears | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 foolish | cc |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 false | conj |
| 6 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appall | nsubj |
| 7 | appall | appall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 appall | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 crevices | case |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 crevices | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crevices | det |
| 14 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Come | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hide | nsubj |
| 16 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 crevices | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hide | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Leave | punct |
| 19 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stones | det |
| 21 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stones | amod |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Leave | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 you | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 you | cop |
| 25 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 stones | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Leave | punct |
| 28 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 earth | det |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Leave | obj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 lies | nsubj |
| 32 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 earth | acl:relcl |
| 33 | around | around | ADV | _ | 32 lies | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 you | punct |
| 35 | above | above | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 Leave | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 come | cc |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 come | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 43 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 do | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 do | nsubj |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | parataxis |
| 46 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 love | amod |
| 47 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 do | obj |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 do | iobj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appall | present | no false fears | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | you not said here | the crevices | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from crevice=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | the crevices | you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | the worthless stones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the worthless stones | beside you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | the earth | you advcl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | |||
| 8 | lie around | present | the earth | around property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | come | infinitive | you not said here | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | do | present | I | dearly love | 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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