The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 55
With his glowing arms he would caress you, Make you pure and with his kisses bless you.
Who acts: Smith, kisses · What happens: glow, caress, make, bless, kiss · To what, where: you
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 (Smith, kisses), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 arms | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 3 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 arms | amod |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caress | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caress | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 caress | aux |
| 7 | caress | caress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 caress | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Make | punct |
| 10 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 caress | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 Make | obj |
| 12 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Make | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bless | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 kisses | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kisses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bless | nsubj |
| 17 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Make | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 bless | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | caress | would | Smith | you | with Smith's glowing arms | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Experiencer with arm=Instrument | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Smith not said here | you | pure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 4 | bless | present | Smith's kisses | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kiss | Smith | nom kiss «act 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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