The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 48
“O restless Waves, be kind, I pray To this small craft while on its way; Drive it along with gentle force, Let nothing swerve it from its course.”
Who acts: restless Waves, heart, nothing · What happens: be, pray, drive, let, swerve · To what, where: way, gentle force, nothing, course
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 (restless Waves, heart, nothing), 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 | _ | 4 Waves | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 Waves | discourse |
| 3 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Waves | amod |
| 4 | Waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Waves | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kind | cop |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 pray | nsubj |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | conj |
| 11 | To | to | ADP | _ | 14 craft | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 craft | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 craft | amod |
| 14 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pray | obl |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 way | mark |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pray | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Drive | punct |
| 20 | Drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kind | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Drive | obj |
| 22 | along | along | ADP | _ | 25 force | case |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 force | case |
| 24 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 force | amod |
| 25 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Drive | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Let | punct |
| 27 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Drive | conj |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 Let | obj |
| 29 | swerve | swerve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Let | xcomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 swerve | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 course | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 course | nmod:poss |
| 33 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swerve | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | restless Waves | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | heart | to this small craft; craft's way advcl | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | drive in a quote | infinitive | way | gentle force | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme along force=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | swerve in a quote | infinitive | nothing not said here | way | way's course | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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