The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 5
Yes! he would finish the magic vessel, and he would sail forthwith to the Frozen Land and win the Maid of Beauty for his queen!
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: finish, sail, win · To what, where: magic vessel, Maid
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 (Minstrel), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 finish | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finish | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 finish | aux |
| 5 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vessel | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vessel | amod |
| 8 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sail | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sail | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sail | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sail | aux |
| 13 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 finish | parataxis |
| 14 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 13 sail | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Land | det |
| 17 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Land | compound |
| 18 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forthwith | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 win | cc |
| 20 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sail | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Maid | det |
| 22 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 win | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Beauty | case |
| 24 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Maid | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 queen | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 queen | nmod:poss |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 win | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | would | Minstrel | the magic vessel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector vessel=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sail | would | Minstrel | forthwith property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | present | Minstrel not said here | the Maid of Beauty | for Minstrel's queen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent maid=Theme for queen=Beneficiary |
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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