The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 37
Come to the wrinkled sea and glide With swiftness o’er its rolling tide.”
Who acts: you, swiftness · What happens: come, wrinkle, glide, roll, tide · To what, where: wrinkled sea
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, swiftness), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 4 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sea | amod |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glide | cc |
| 7 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 8 | With | with | ADP | _ | 9 swiftness | case |
| 9 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glide | obl |
| 10 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 13 tide | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tide | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 tide | amod |
| 13 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glide | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | the wrinkled sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | glide | present | you not said here | with swiftness; o'er swiftness's rolling tide | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | tide | swiftness | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=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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