The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 72
Will you not help me guide it over the trackless sea—guide it safely to the haven of Wainola?”
Who acts: you, me · What happens: not help, guide · To what, where: me, vessel, trackless sea, haven
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 guide | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 10 | trackless | trackless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sea | amod |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guide | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 guide | punct |
| 13 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 guide | obj |
| 15 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 guide | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 haven | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 haven | det |
| 18 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guide | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Wainola | case |
| 20 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 haven | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | future | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guide not said to happen | infinitive | me not said here | vessel | the trackless sea | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over sea=Destination | |||
| 3 | guide | infinitive | you not said here | vessel | the haven of Wainola | safely property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to haven=Destination |
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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