The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 72

You are to do some skilful blacksmithing—use a little of your wondrous magic—and your reward shall be the loveliest wife in the world.

Who acts: You, reward, your · What happens: be, use, reward · To what, where: skilful blacksmithing, little, loveliest wife, world

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, reward, your), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 blacksmithing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 blacksmithing	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	7 blacksmithing	mark
4	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 blacksmithing	aux
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 blacksmithing	det
6	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blacksmithing	amod
7	blacksmithing	blacksmithing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 blacksmithing	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 use	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 magic	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 magic	nmod:poss
14	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 magic	amod
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 little	nmod
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 wife	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wife	cc
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 reward	nmod:poss
19	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wife	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 wife	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 wife	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wife	det
23	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 wife	amod
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wife	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 blacksmithing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present · do-support	You	some skilful blacksmithing		tree rules
2	use	infinitive		a little of your wondrous magic		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
3	is a	shall	your reward	the loveliest wife	the world	tree rules
4	reward		your			nom reward «event 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 72

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 72