The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 95

So I have come boldly to Tuonela to borrow the tools which I desire so greatly—the three lost words that shall make my boat seaworthy and safe.

Who acts: I, three, words · What happens: come, borrow, desire, lose, make · To what, where: Tuonela, tools, words, boat

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 (I, three, words), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 come	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Tuonela	case
7	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 borrow	mark
9	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tools	det
11	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 borrow	obj
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 desire	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 desire	nsubj
14	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tools	acl:relcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 greatly	advmod
16	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	14 desire	advmod
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 three	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 lost	nsubj
20	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tools	acl:relcl
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lost	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 make	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 make	aux
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 words	acl:relcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 boat	nmod:poss
26	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
27	seaworthy	seaworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 safe	cc
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 seaworthy	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I		Tuonela	boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tuonela=Initial_Location
2	borrow	to-infinitive	I not said here	the tools			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme
3	desire	present	I	the tools		greatly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
4	lose	past	the three	words			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
5	make	shall	words	my boat		seaworthy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 95