The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 60
“‘Take the tips of two swan feathers; Add the milk of a young heifer; Add a single grain of barley; Mix and stir with wool of lambkin; Heat the mixture, quickly, rightly; In a magic caldron boil it; On a magic anvil beat it; Hammer its lid of many colors; Furnish it with wheels and levers; Set it up, and start it going.’”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, add, stir, heat, boil, beat · To what, where: tips, milk, single grain, mixture, magician
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 3 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tips | det |
| 5 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feathers | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 feathers | nummod |
| 8 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feathers | compound |
| 9 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tips | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Add | punct |
| 11 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 milk | det |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Add | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heifer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 heifer | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heifer | amod |
| 17 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 milk | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Add | punct |
| 19 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 grain | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grain | amod |
| 22 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Add | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 barley | case |
| 24 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grain | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Mix | punct |
| 26 | Mix | Mix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Take | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stir | cc |
| 28 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 wool | case |
| 30 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stir | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 lambkin | case |
| 32 | lambkin | lambkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wool | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Heat | punct |
| 34 | Heat | heat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mixture | det |
| 36 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Heat | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 quickly | punct |
| 38 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 34 Heat | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rightly | punct |
| 40 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 34 Heat | advmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 boil | punct |
| 42 | In | in | ADP | _ | 45 caldron | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 caldron | det |
| 44 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 caldron | amod |
| 45 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 boil | obl |
| 46 | boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 boil | obj |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 beat | punct |
| 49 | On | on | ADP | _ | 52 anvil | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 anvil | det |
| 51 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 anvil | amod |
| 52 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 beat | obl |
| 53 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | parataxis |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 beat | obj |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 lid | punct |
| 56 | Hammer | Hammer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 lid | compound |
| 57 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 lid | nmod:poss |
| 58 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Take | obl |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 colors | case |
| 60 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 colors | amod |
| 61 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 lid | nmod |
| 62 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 63 Furnish | punct |
| 63 | Furnish | furnish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 64 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 Furnish | obj |
| 65 | with | with | ADP | _ | 66 wheels | case |
| 66 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 63 Furnish | obl |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 levers | cc |
| 68 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 wheels | conj |
| 69 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 70 Set | punct |
| 70 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 71 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 70 Set | obj |
| 72 | up | up | ADP | _ | 70 Set | compound:prt |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 75 start | punct |
| 74 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 75 start | cc |
| 75 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 76 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 75 start | obj |
| 77 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 75 start | xcomp |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 79 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 80 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the tips of two swan feathers | Mix obl; magician's Hammer lid of many colors obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the milk of a young heifer | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a single grain of barley | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stir in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | with wool of lambkin | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient with wool=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | heat in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the mixture | quickly, rightly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mixture=Patient | |||
| 6 | boil in a quote | present | you not said here | mixture | in a magic caldron | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in caldron=Instrument | |||
| 7 | beat in a quote | present | mixture | on a magic anvil | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on anvil=Patient | ||||
| 8 | furnish in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | magician | with wheels and levers | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with wheel=Theme | |||
| 9 | set up in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | magician | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 10 | start in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | magician | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | go in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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