The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 104
Lie still now and rest again in the silent loneliness of your chosen kingdom.
Who acts: you · What happens: lie, rest, choose · To what, where: silent loneliness
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rest | cc |
| 5 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 rest | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 loneliness | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loneliness | det |
| 9 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 loneliness | amod |
| 10 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rest | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kingdom | amod |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loneliness | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | still; now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | you not said here | the silent loneliness of your chosen kingdom | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loneliness=Location | |||
| 3 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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