The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 109
Hasten away, and seek your own home and kindred ere it is too late.”
Who acts: you, ere · What happens: hasten away, seek, be · To what, where: own home
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ere), 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 | Hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Hasten | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seek | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seek | cc |
| 5 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hasten | conj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seek | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ere | cc |
| 10 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ere | amod |
| 11 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 late | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 late | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 late | advmod |
| 15 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seek | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hasten | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | your own home and kindred ere | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | ere | late property | 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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