The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 16
The winds would not serve him, the waves would not waft him away from the shore.
Who acts: winds, waves · What happens: not serve, not waft · To what, where: Minstrel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, waves), 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 winds | det |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 serve | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 serve | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 serve | advmod |
| 5 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 serve | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waft | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 waft | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 waft | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 waft | advmod |
| 12 | waft | waft | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 serve | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 waft | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 waft | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 away | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not serve | would | the winds | Minstrel | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not waft | would | the waves | Minstrel | away property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
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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