The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 106
“Come, thou North Wind, great and strong, Guide this hero to his home; Gently drive his boat along O’er the dashing white sea-foam.
Who acts: you · What happens: come, guide, drive, dash, foam · To what, where: North Wind, hero, home, boat
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 (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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Guide | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wind | punct |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 Wind | nsubj |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wind | compound |
| 6 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Wind | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strong | cc |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 great | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Guide | punct |
| 12 | Guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 hero | det |
| 14 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Guide | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Guide | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 drive | punct |
| 19 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 20 drive | advmod |
| 20 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Guide | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 boat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drive | obj |
| 23 | along | along | ADP | _ | 24 O’er | case |
| 24 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 drive | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 foam | det |
| 26 | dashing | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 foam | nsubj |
| 27 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 foam | amod |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 foam | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 sea | punct |
| 30 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drive | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | North Wind thou | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guide in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this hero | guest's home | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hero=Theme to home=Destination | |||
| 3 | drive in a quote | infinitive | guest's boat | along O’er; gently property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | dash in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | foam in a quote | 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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