The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 64
“Take them, and may they speed you on your way!”
Who acts: you, shoes · What happens: take, speed · To what, where: shoes, you, way
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, shoes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 speed | cc |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 speed | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 speed | nsubj |
| 8 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 speed | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speed | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | shoes = shoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speed in a quote | may | shoes = shoe | you | your way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme on way=Trajectory |
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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