The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 115
On it I am hoping to sail to that distant, dismal country of which you have often heard me talk—to Pohyola, the Frozen Land, where wild men live under the ground and eat each other.
Who acts: vessel, you, wild men · What happens: hope, sail, hear, talk, live, eat · To what, where: distant dismal country, me, Pohyola, ground, each
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 (vessel, you, wild men), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 hoping | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hoping | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hoping | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hoping | aux |
| 5 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sail | mark |
| 7 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hoping | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 country | nsubj |
| 10 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 distant | punct |
| 12 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sail | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 heard | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 heard | advmod |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 country | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 heard | obj |
| 21 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sail | conj |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Pohyola | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Pohyola | case |
| 24 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 talk | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Land | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Land | det |
| 27 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Land | compound |
| 28 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Pohyola | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 live | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 live | advmod |
| 31 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 men | amod |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 live | nsubj |
| 33 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Pohyola | acl:relcl |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 36 ground | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ground | det |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 live | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eat | cc |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 live | conj |
| 39 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 38 eat | obj |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 each | fixed |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present · progressive | vessel | I nsubj | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sail not said to happen | to-infinitive | vessel not said here | distant dismal country that | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to country=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | you | me | of distant dismal country that; often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | talk | infinitive | vessel not said here | Pohyola | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to pohyola=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | live | present | wild men | the ground | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Location | ||||
| 6 | eat | present | wild men not said here | each | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |
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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