The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 163
“Drive swiftly while the sun shines, but remember to keep your eyes upon your pathway, and do not look upward.
Who acts: you, sun · What happens: drive, shine, remember, keep, not look · To what, where: eyes, pathway
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun), 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 | _ | 2 Drive | punct |
| 2 | Drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 2 Drive | advmod |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 shines | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shines | nsubj |
| 7 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Drive | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remember | cc |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Drive | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 remember | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 pathway | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pathway | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 look | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 look | cc |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 look | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 look | advmod |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Drive | conj |
| 23 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive in a quote | imperative | you not said here | swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shine in a quote | present | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remember in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your eyes | your pathway | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon pathway=Location | |||
| 5 | not look in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | upward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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