The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 45
He lifted up his voice and sang a prayerful song to the mighty powers into whose keeping he had ventured to intrust himself.
Who acts: heart · What happens: lift up, sing, keep, venture, intrust · To what, where: voice, prayerful song, mighty powers, heart
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 (heart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sang | cc |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 9 | prayerful | prayerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 song | amod |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 powers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 powers | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 powers | amod |
| 14 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sang | obl |
| 15 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeping | mark |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 keeping | nmod:poss |
| 17 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sang | advcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ventured | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ventured | aux |
| 20 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 keeping | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 intrust | mark |
| 22 | intrust | intrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ventured | xcomp |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 intrust | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | heart | heart's voice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | heart not said here | a prayerful song | the mighty powers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to power=Recipient | |||
| 3 | keep | gerund | heart not said here | whose nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | venture | past · perfect | heart | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | intrust | to-infinitive | heart not said here | heart | tree rules |
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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