The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 15
Soon you shall float on the waves, the South Wind will caress you, the deep sea will welcome you.”
Who acts: you, South Wind, deep sea · What happens: float, caress, welcome · To what, where: waves, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, South Wind, deep sea), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 float | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 float | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 float | aux |
| 4 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 waves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waves | det |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 float | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caress | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wind | det |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wind | compound |
| 11 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 caress | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 caress | aux |
| 13 | caress | caress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 float | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 caress | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 welcome | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 welcome | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 welcome | aux |
| 20 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 caress | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 welcome | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 float | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 float | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | shall | you | the waves | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | caress | future | the South Wind | you | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | welcome | future | the deep sea | you | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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