The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 86
Give me all such things that I may make a mixture to harden Iron.”
Who acts: you, such things, mixture · What happens: give, make, harden · To what, where: such things, me, mixture, Iron
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, such things, mixture), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 things | det |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 make | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mixture | det |
| 11 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 harden | mark |
| 13 | harden | harden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 14 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 harden | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | all such things | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | may | all such things | a mixture | I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | harden | to-infinitive | a mixture not said here | Iron | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent iron=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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