The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 125
O Ilmarinen, skilfulest of men, if you are not afraid, climb quickly up and fetch down those matchless treasures.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, climb, fetch down · To what, where: matchless treasures
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 (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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 Ilmarinen | discourse |
| 2 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 skilfulest | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 skilfulest | punct |
| 4 | skilfulest | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skilfulest | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 afraid | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 afraid | advmod |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 skilfulest | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 climb | punct |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | parataxis |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 up | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 climb | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fetch | cc |
| 18 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 climb | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 fetch | compound:prt |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 treasures | det |
| 21 | matchless | matchless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 treasures | amod |
| 22 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fetch | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skilfulest | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 skilfulest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fetch down | infinitive | that matchless treasures | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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