The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 107

“Push him with your mighty hand; Blow him o’er the blue-backed sea; Carry him safe to Hero Land, And let him ne’er come back to me.”

Who acts: you, guest · What happens: push, blow, back, carry, let, ne'er · To what, where: guest, shores

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, guest), 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 Push	punct
2	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Push	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Push	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 Blow	punct
9	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Push	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Blow	obj
11	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	16 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 backed	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 blue	punct
15	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 sea	amod
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Blow	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Carry	punct
18	Carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Blow	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Carry	obj
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Carry	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Land	case
22	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Land	compound
23	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 safe	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	And	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Blow	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	ne’er	ne'er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ne’er	xcomp
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Push	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Push	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	push in a quote	imperative	you not said here	guest		with your mighty hand	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	blow in a quote	infinitive		guest		o'er the backed sea	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	back in a quote	participle					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry in a quote	infinitive		guest		safe property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	let in a quote	infinitive		guest			tree rules
6	ne'er in a quote	infinitive	guest not said here				tree rules
7	come back in a quote	infinitive	guest not said here		shores = shore		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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 Homesick Hero, sentence 107