The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 17
Beware of the hornet, beware of his sting, Beware of the evils he surely will bring; In all things be gentle, O Iron, my king— Cling, cling, clinkety cling!”
Who acts: you, Help · What happens: beware, bring, be, sting · To what, where: evils, things
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, 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 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hornet | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hornet | det |
| 4 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beware | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beware | punct |
| 6 | beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beware | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sting | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sting | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beware | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Beware | punct |
| 11 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beware | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 evils | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evils | det |
| 14 | evils | evil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Beware | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 16 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 evils | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gentle | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 things | det |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gentle | obl |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gentle | cop |
| 24 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Beware | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 O | punct |
| 26 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 gentle | conj |
| 27 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 O | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 king | punct |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 king | nmod:poss |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beware | parataxis |
| 31 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Cling | punct |
| 32 | Cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 king | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cling | punct |
| 34 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Cling | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cling | punct |
| 36 | clinkety | clinkety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cling | compound |
| 37 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Cling | appos |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 cling | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | of the hornet; my king and Cling and cling parataxis | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | beware | infinitive | you not said here | of Help's sting | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | beware | infinitive | you not said here | of the evils | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | bring | future | Help | the evils not said here | surely property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | infinitive | all things | O conj; gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sting | Help | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=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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