The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 85
Bring me a drop of your honey; bring the sweet liquor which you suck from the meadow flower; bring the magic dew of the wildwood.
Who acts: you · What happens: bring, suck · To what, where: drop, me, sweet liquor, meadow flower, magic dew
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), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drop | det |
| 4 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 honey | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 honey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 liquor | det |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 liquor | amod |
| 12 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 suck | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 suck | nsubj |
| 15 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 liquor | acl:relcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 flower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flower | det |
| 18 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flower | compound |
| 19 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suck | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dew | det |
| 23 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dew | amod |
| 24 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wildwood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wildwood | det |
| 27 | wildwood | wildwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dew | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a drop of your honey | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination drop=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | the sweet liquor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent liquor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suck | present | you | the sweet liquor | the meadow flower | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from flower=Source | |||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | the magic dew of the wildwood | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dew=Theme |
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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