The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 76
Don’t forget the golden chain that goes around your neck; nor the belt with copper buckle; nor your earrings; nor the silken ribbons for your hair; nor the jewelled band that goes upon your forehead.
Who acts: you, golden chain, jewelled band · What happens: not forget, go, jewell · To what, where: golden chain, neck, forehead
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, golden chain, jewelled band), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forget | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 forget | advmod |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chain | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chain | amod |
| 6 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forget | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chain | acl:relcl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 goes | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 belt | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 belt | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 belt | det |
| 15 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forget | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 buckle | case |
| 17 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buckle | compound |
| 18 | buckle | buckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 belt | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 earrings | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 earrings | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 earrings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | earrings | earring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forget | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ribbons | punct |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 ribbons | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ribbons | det |
| 26 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ribbons | amod |
| 27 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forget | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 hair | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hair | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ribbons | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 band | punct |
| 32 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 35 band | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 band | det |
| 34 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 band | amod |
| 35 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forget | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 goes | nsubj |
| 37 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 band | acl:relcl |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 forehead | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 40 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 goes | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the golden chain | your earrings obl; the silken ribbons for your hair obl; the belt with copper buckle parataxis; the jewelled band parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | present | the golden chain | your neck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around neck=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | jewell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | present | the jewelled band | your forehead | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon forehead=Location |
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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