The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 22
Leave now your sledge and your travel-worn steed and come hither and sit by me on the deck of this fairy little vessel.
Who acts: you · What happens: leave, wear, come, sit · To what, where: sledge, deck
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 (you), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Leave | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 steed | cc |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 steed | nmod:poss |
| 7 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worn | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 travel | punct |
| 9 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 steed | amod |
| 10 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sledge | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sit | cc |
| 15 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sit | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 deck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deck | det |
| 20 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sit | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 vessel | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 vessel | nsubj |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 vessel | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 vessel | amod |
| 25 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deck | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | your sledge and your worn steed | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme | |||
| 2 | wear | participle | travel compound | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | you not said here | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | infinitive | you not said here | the deck of fairy little vessel this | by me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location |
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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