The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 80
I am sailing thitherward, hoping to do my part in the struggle and to lend my aid to those who deserve it most.
Who acts: I · What happens: sail, hope, do, lend, deserve · To what, where: thitherward, part, struggle, aid, those
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sailing | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailing | aux |
| 3 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | thitherward | thitherward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hoping | punct |
| 6 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sailing | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hoping | xcomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 part | nmod:poss |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 struggle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 struggle | det |
| 13 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lend | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lend | mark |
| 16 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 aid | nmod:poss |
| 18 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lend | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 those | case |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 lend | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 deserve | nsubj |
| 22 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 deserve | obj |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 22 deserve | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present · progressive | I | thitherward | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thitherward=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my part | the struggle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | lend | to-infinitive | I not said here | my aid | those | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to that=Recipient | |||
| 5 | deserve | present | aid | who nsubj | tree rules |
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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