The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 103
I long—oh, I long! to float on the blue-backed sea, to carry treasures from land to land, to fight with the storm and conquer the waves.”
What happens: float, back, carry, fight, conquer · To what, where: backed sea, treasures, land, waves
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 long | nsubj |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 long | advmod |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 long | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 oh | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 long | nsubj |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 float | mark |
| 10 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 long | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | 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 | 10 float | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carry | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 float | conj |
| 20 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fight | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fight | mark |
| 27 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 carry | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 storm | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 storm | det |
| 30 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fight | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 conquer | cc |
| 32 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fight | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 waves | det |
| 34 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 conquer | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | to-infinitive | the backed sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | treasures | land | to land | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme from land=Initial_Location to land=Destination | |||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | with the storm | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with storm=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | conquer | infinitive | the waves | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient |
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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