The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 54
If by your power in magic you can mix these ingredients properly, the mill is made—it will do its work.
Who acts: you, mill · What happens: mix, make, do, work · To what, where: ingredients, mill, work
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, mill), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 mix | mark |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 power | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mix | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 magic | case |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 power | nmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 mix | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mix | aux |
| 9 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | advcl |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 ingredients | det |
| 11 | ingredients | ingredient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mix | obj |
| 12 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 9 mix | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mix | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mill | det |
| 15 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 work | nmod:poss |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix a condition, not said to happen | can | you | this ingredients | by your power in magic; properly property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ingredient=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | the mill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | do | future | mill | mill's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work | mill | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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