The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 62
The deep sea overcame me, and the raging waves seized me, and when my breath failed me and my strength was gone, Water commanded me to come quickly to Tuonela.
Who acts: deep sea, raging waves, breath, strength, Water · What happens: overcome, rage, seize, fail, be, command · To what, where: me, Tuonela · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (deep sea, raging waves, breath, strength), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sea | amod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcame | nsubj |
| 4 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 overcame | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seized | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waves | det |
| 9 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 waves | amod |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcame | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 failed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 failed | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 failed | advmod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 failed | nsubj |
| 18 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcame | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 failed | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gone | cc |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 strength | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | cop |
| 24 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 failed | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 commanded | punct |
| 26 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 commanded | nsubj |
| 27 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | acl:relcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 commanded | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 come | mark |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 commanded | xcomp |
| 31 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Tuonela | case |
| 33 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past | the deep sea | me | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | seize | past | the raging waves | me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | my breath | me | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | past | my strength | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | command | past | Water | me | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Water not said here | Tuonela | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tuonela=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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