The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 78

“But if you could know how lovely she is—this Maid of Beauty—you would do as I desire, you would go to Pohyola,” said the Minstrel with increasing earnestness.

Who acts: you, Wainola, Minstrel · What happens: know, be, do, desire, go, say · To what, where: Pohyola · 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 (you, Wainola, Minstrel), 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	_	6 know	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 know	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 know	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 lovely	advmod
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	ccomp
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lovely	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	cop
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 Maid	punct
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 Maid	det
13	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 know	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Beauty	case
15	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Maid	nmod
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	parataxis
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 desire	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 desire	nsubj
22	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 do	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 do	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Pohyola	case
28	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Minstrel	det
33	Minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 earnestness	case
35	increasing	increasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 earnestness	amod
36	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Minstrel	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	you		this Maid of Beauty parataxis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	Wainola		lovely property	tree rules
3	do in a quote	would	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	desire in a quote	present	the Minstrel = minstrel			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	go in a quote	would	you	Pohyola		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pohyola=Initial_Location
6	say speech: assert	past	the Minstrel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 78