The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 97
The water is not deep, so wade out hither and sit by my side on this shining, silvery deck, and I will tell you the plain truth and a wonderful secret.
Who acts: water, I · What happens: not be, wade out, sit, tell · To what, where: shining, plain truth, you · 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 (water, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deep | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deep | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deep | advmod |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wade | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 wade | advmod |
| 8 | wade | wade | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 deep | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 wade | compound:prt |
| 10 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 8 wade | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sit | cc |
| 12 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 wade | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 side | nmod:poss |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sit | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shining | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 shining | det |
| 18 | shining | shining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sit | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 deck | punct |
| 20 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 deck | amod |
| 21 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shining | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tell | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wade | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 29 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 truth | amod |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 secret | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 secret | det |
| 33 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 secret | amod |
| 34 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 truth | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the water | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wade out | infinitive | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | infinitive | this shining and silvery deck | by my side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | future | I | the plain truth and a wonderful secret | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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