The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 46
“O great Jumala let thy arm Protect this little ship from harm; Make its weak captain brave and strong, And listen to his humble song.
Who acts: great Jumala, arm, Jumala · What happens: let, protect, make, listen, sing · To what, where: little ship, weak captain
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 (great Jumala, arm, Jumala), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 great | discourse |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Jumala | amod |
| 4 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Protect | nsubj |
| 8 | Protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ship | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ship | amod |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Protect | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 harm | case |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Protect | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Make | punct |
| 15 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 captain | nmod:poss |
| 17 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 captain | amod |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Make | obj |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Make | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brave | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 listen | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 listen | cc |
| 24 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 song | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 song | nmod:poss |
| 27 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 song | amod |
| 28 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 listen | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | past | great Jumala | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | protect in a quote | present | thy arm | this little ship | from harm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Beneficiary from harm=Theme | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | great Jumala not said here | arm's weak captain | brave property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset captain=Product | |||
| 4 | listen in a quote | infinitive | great Jumala not said here | to Jumala's humble song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing in a quote | Jumala | nom song «communication 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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