The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 30
Will you not hammer its lid of many colors, even as your brother, the Minstrel, assured me you would?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not hammer, assure · To what, where: lid, me
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hammer | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hammer | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hammer | advmod |
| 4 | hammer | hammer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lid | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hammer | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 colors | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 colors | amod |
| 9 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lid | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brother | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 brother | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colors | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Minstrel | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Minstrel | det |
| 17 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 brother | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assured | punct |
| 19 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hammer | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 assured | iobj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 would | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 assured | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hammer | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hammer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hammer | future | you | Sampo's lid of many colors and your brother | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | assure | past | me | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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