The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 34

Ride on and woo the Maid of Beauty, and I will return alone to our dear home in the Land of Heroes.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: ride on, woo, return · To what, where: Maid, Land

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, 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	Ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Ride	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 woo	cc
4	woo	woo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ride	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Maid	det
6	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 woo	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Beauty	case
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Maid	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 return	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 return	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 return	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 return	aux
13	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ride	parataxis
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 return	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 home	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 home	nmod:poss
17	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 home	amod
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Land	det
21	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Heroes	case
23	Heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Land	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ride	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride on	imperative	you not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	woo	infinitive	you not said here	the Maid of Beauty			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient
3	return	future	I		the Land of Heroes	to our dear home result; alone property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result

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 Friendly Rivals, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 34