The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 124
“To gather those gorgeous blossoms,” answered Wainamoinen; “to pick the rare fruit which you see; and, most of all, to bring down the white-faced moon and the seven golden stars that are playing among the branches.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, you, most, seven golden stars · What happens: gather, answer, pick, see, bring down, play · To what, where: gorgeous blossoms, rare fruit, faced moon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen, you, most, seven golden stars), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gather | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 gather | mark |
| 3 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 blossoms | det |
| 5 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blossoms | amod |
| 6 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gather | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gather | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gather | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gather | conj |
| 10 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pick | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pick | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pick | mark |
| 14 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gather | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fruit | det |
| 16 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fruit | amod |
| 17 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pick | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 see | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 bring | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bring | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 most | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bring | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 bring | mark |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pick | conj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 bring | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 moon | det |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 faced | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 white | punct |
| 34 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 moon | amod |
| 35 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bring | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 playing | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stars | det |
| 38 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 stars | nummod |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 stars | amod |
| 40 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 playing | nsubj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 playing | nsubj |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 playing | aux |
| 43 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 bring | conj |
| 44 | among | among | ADP | _ | 46 branches | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 branches | det |
| 46 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 playing | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather in a quote | to-infinitive | that gorgeous blossoms | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Wainamoinen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pick in a quote | to-infinitive | the rare fruit | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | you | the rare fruit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bring down in a quote | to-infinitive | most of all | the faced moon | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | ||||
| 6 | play in a quote | present · progressive | the seven golden stars | among the branches; that nsubj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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