The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 56

“And I promise that with my magic skill I will put that one together,” said the Smith; “but what can you tell me about its ingredients?

Who acts: I, Smith, you · What happens: promise, put, say, tell · To what, where: one, Smith · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Smith, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 promise	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 promise	nsubj
4	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 put	mark
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 skill	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skill	nmod:poss
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skill	compound
9	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 one	mark
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 put	obj
15	together	together	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Smith	det
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 tell	obj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 ingredients	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ingredients	nmod:poss
31	ingredients	ingredient	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tell	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put in a quote	future	I	one		with my magic skill; together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
3	say speech: ask	past	the Smith				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you		the Smith = smith	about skill's ingredients; what obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 56