The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 58
Give me fair winds and a gentle sea, and guide me safely to my journey’s end.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: give, guide, journey · To what, where: fair winds, me, end
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, 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 winds | amod |
| 4 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sea | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sea | amod |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 winds | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 guide | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 guide | cc |
| 11 | guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 guide | obj |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 11 guide | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guide | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | fair winds and a gentle sea | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wind=Theme | |||
| 2 | guide | infinitive | you not said here | me | to my journey's end | safely property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to end=Destination | ||
| 3 | journey | my | nom journey «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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