The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 50

“Now tell me if in all your travels you have ever met a certain smith, young and wondrously skilful, whom men call Ilmarinen.”

Who acts: you, men · What happens: tell, travel, meet, call · To what, where: Wise Woman, certain smith · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men), 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	_	3 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 travels	mark
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 travels	det:predet
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 travels	nmod:poss
9	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 met	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 met	advmod
13	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 travels	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 smith	det
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 smith	amod
16	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 young	punct
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 smith	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 skilful	cc
20	wondrously	wondrously	ADV	_	21 skilful	advmod
21	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 young	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 call	obj
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 smith	parataxis
26	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 call	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the Wise Woman = woman	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	travel a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you not said here				your nmod:poss	tree rules
3	meet in a quote	present · perfect	you	a certain smith		ever		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Co-Agent
4	call in a quote	present	men		a certain smith		Ilmarinen xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 50