The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 105
She lifted her arms, she raised her eyes towards heaven, and called to the North Wind to prosper the voyage for her departing guest:
Who acts: Mistress · What happens: lift, raise, call, prosper · To what, where: arms, eyes, heaven, North Wind, voyage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 raised | obj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Wind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wind | det |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wind | compound |
| 18 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 prosper | mark |
| 20 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 called | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 voyage | det |
| 22 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prosper | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 guest | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 guest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | departing | departing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guest | compound |
| 26 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prosper | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Mistress | Mistress's arms | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Mistress | Mistress's eyes | heaven | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards heaven=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the North Wind | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | prosper | to-infinitive | the voyage | for Mistress's departing guest | 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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