The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 99

I know that you have chained the winds so that they will carry me no farther on my voyage until you have learned what you wish.

Who acts: I, you, truth, my · What happens: know, chain, carry, learn, wish, voyage · To what, where: winds, me, 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 (I, you, truth, my), 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	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 chained	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 chained	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chained	aux
6	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 know	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winds	det
8	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chained	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 carry	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carry	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	aux
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chained	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obj
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 farther	advmod
16	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 carry	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 voyage	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 voyage	nmod:poss
19	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obl
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 learned	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 learned	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 learned	aux
23	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 carry	parataxis
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 wish	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 wish	nsubj
26	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 learned	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	chain	present · perfect	you	the winds			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Patient
3	carry	future	truth	me	my voyage	far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	learn	present · perfect	you				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wish	present	you			what obj	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
6	voyage		my				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 99

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 99