The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 20

I would that we might keep him here forever—one hero in the flesh among a myriad of formless shades!”

Who acts: I · What happens: keep · To what, where: man, myriad

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 keep	nsubj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 keep	advmod
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 keep	advmod
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 hero	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hero	nummod
12	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 flesh	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flesh	det
15	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hero	nmod
16	among	among	ADP	_	18 myriad	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 myriad	det
18	myriad	myriad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 shades	case
20	formless	formless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shades	amod
21	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 myriad	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	might	I	man		a myriad of formless shades; here		one hero in the flesh obl; that nsubj; we nsubj; forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme among myriad=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 20