The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 12
I shall never see thee skimming over the waves; thou wilt never carry me to Pohyola’s dreary shores; thou wilt never bring the Maid of Beauty hither to be the queen of my house and the joy of my heart!”
Who acts: I, thee, thou · What happens: not see, skim, not carry, not bring, be, joy · To what, where: thee, waves, me, dreary shores, Maid, queen
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 (I, thee, thou), 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 | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | skimming | skim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 see | xcomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 skimming | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 carry | advmod |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 shores | case |
| 17 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shores | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Pohyola | case |
| 19 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shores | amod |
| 20 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 22 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 23 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 bring | advmod |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Maid | det |
| 27 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Beauty | case |
| 29 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Maid | nmod |
| 30 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 queen | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 queen | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 queen | det |
| 34 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 house | nmod:poss |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 queen | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 joy | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 joy | det |
| 40 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 queen | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 heart | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 heart | nmod:poss |
| 43 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 joy | nmod |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | shall | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | skim | gerund | thee not said here | the waves | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not carry | future | thou | me | Pohyola's dreary shores | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 4 | not bring | future | thou | the Maid of Beauty | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument maid=Destination | |||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | thou not said here | the queen and the joy of my heart | of my house; the joy of my heart conj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | joy | my heart | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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