The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 110

So, speaking softly, gently, as becomes a vanquished hero, he proposed this modest bargain: “If I tell you where I am going and for what purpose, will you promise to waken the South Wind that he may drive my ship forward on its perilous voyage?”

Who acts: speaking, fish, I, you, purpose · What happens: speak, become, vanquish, propose, tell, go · To what, where: vanquished hero, modest bargain, you, South Wind, ship, perilous voyage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speaking, fish, I, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 becomes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 becomes	csubj
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 speaking	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gently	punct
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 speaking	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 becomes	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 becomes	mark
9	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hero	det
11	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hero	amod
12	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 becomes	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 proposed	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proposed	nsubj
15	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 becomes	parataxis
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 bargain	det
17	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bargain	amod
18	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proposed	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
21	If	if	SCONJ	_	23 tell	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proposed	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 going	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 tell	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 what	cc
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 what	case
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 going	obl
32	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 what	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 promise	punct
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 promise	aux
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 promise	nsubj
36	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 waken	mark
38	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 promise	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Wind	det
40	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Wind	compound
41	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 waken	obj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 drive	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 drive	nsubj
44	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 drive	aux
45	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 waken	advcl
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 ship	nmod:poss
47	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 drive	obj
48	forward	forward	ADV	_	45 drive	advmod
49	on	on	ADP	_	52 voyage	case
50	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 voyage	nmod:poss
51	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 voyage	amod
52	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 drive	obl
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 promise	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund					gently, softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	present	speaking	a vanquished hero				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	vanquish	participle						tree rules
4	propose	past	fish	this modest bargain				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme
5	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	I				what purpose obl	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for what=Beneficiary
7	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	you					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	waken not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the South Wind				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
9	drive in a quote	may	fish	my ship		purpose's perilous voyage	forward property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme on voyage=Destination
10	voyage in a quote		purpose					nom voyage «act transitive»: 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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 110