The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 69
Whisper your light songs to the birds, and let them nest among your branches.
Who acts: you, songs, your · What happens: whisper, let, nest, sing · To what, where: light songs, birds, songs
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 (you, songs, your), 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 | Whisper | whisper | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 songs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 songs | compound |
| 4 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whisper | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 birds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birds | det |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Whisper | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whisper | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | nest | nest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 branches | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 branches | nmod:poss |
| 15 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nest | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whisper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | your light songs | the birds | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to bird=Recipient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | songs = song | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | nest | infinitive | songs = song not said here | among your branches | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sing | your | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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