The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 15
O honeybee, hasten, come hither and bring Your sweets from the wildwood, the flowers of spring, Help make of this Iron some beautiful thing— Ding, ding, dinkety ding!
Who acts: honeybee, Help · What happens: hasten, come, bring, make · To what, where: sweets, wildwood, beautiful thing
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 (honeybee, Help), 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 honeybee | discourse |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hasten | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hasten | punct |
| 4 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hasten | conj |
| 7 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 10 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bring | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wildwood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wildwood | det |
| 14 | wildwood | wildwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flowers | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wildwood | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowers | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 21 | Help | Help | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 make | nsubj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hasten | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Iron | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 Iron | det |
| 25 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 thing | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thing | amod |
| 28 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | xcomp |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ding | punct |
| 30 | Ding | ding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 thing | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ding | punct |
| 32 | ding | ding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Ding | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ding | punct |
| 34 | dinkety | dinkety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ding | amod |
| 35 | ding | ding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Ding | conj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | infinitive | honeybee | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | honeybee not said here | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | honeybee not said here | Your sweets | the wildwood and the flowers of spring | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme from wildwood=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | Help | some beautiful thing | of this Iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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