The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 111
May the fairy ship float lightly upon the waves and bear you whithersoever you desire to go!
Who acts: May, you · What happens: float, bear, desire, go · To what, where: waves, you
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: who acts (May, 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 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 float | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ship | compound |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 May | appos |
| 5 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 5 float | advmod |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 float | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bear | cc |
| 11 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 float | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bear | obj |
| 13 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 11 bear | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 desire | nsubj |
| 15 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bear | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 desire | xcomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 float | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | May | the waves | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wave=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bear | present | May not said here | you | whithersoever property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 3 | desire | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | 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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