The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 112
“You shall have a fair wind and a smooth sea and my best wishes to the end of your adventure.”
Who acts: You, my, your · What happens: have, wish, adventure · To what, where: fair wind
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 (You, my, your), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wind | amod |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sea | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 10 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sea | amod |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wind | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wishes | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 wishes | amod |
| 15 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wind | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wishes | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 adventure | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | You | a fair wind and a smooth sea and my best wishes to the end of your adventure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | my | to the end of your adventure | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 3 | adventure in a quote | your | nom adventure «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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