The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 77
And oh, my dear child, do look pleasant, pretty, comely, and let your face be bright and cheerful.”
Who acts: you, face · What happens: look, let, be · To what, where: face
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, face), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 2 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 look | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 child | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 oh | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretty | punct |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pleasant | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comely | punct |
| 14 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pleasant | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bright | cop |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 let | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cheerful | cc |
| 23 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bright | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative · do-support | you not said here | pleasant property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | your face | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | your face not said here | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | your face not said here | tree rules |
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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