The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 64
“O, my eagle,” answered the Smith, “carry me swiftly towards the land of Tuonela, fly with speed and pause not till the sluggish, silent river is beneath you.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: answer, carry, fly, not pause, be · To what, where: Smith, eagle, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eagle | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 eagle | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eagle | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eagle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eagle | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eagle | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Smith | det |
| 10 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 13 carry | advmod |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tuonela | case |
| 20 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 land | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fly | punct |
| 22 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carry | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 speed | case |
| 24 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pause | cc |
| 26 | pause | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fly | conj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 pause | advmod |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 33 river | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 river | det |
| 30 | sluggish | sluggish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 river | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sluggish | punct |
| 32 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 river | amod |
| 33 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pause | obl |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 you | cop |
| 35 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 river | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my eagle | the Smith | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent smith=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | infinitive | my eagle not said here | my eagle = eagle | the land of Tuonela | swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme towards land=Destination | ||
| 3 | fly in a quote | infinitive | my eagle not said here | with speed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not pause in a quote | present | my eagle not said here | till the sluggish silent river | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | my eagle not said here | beneath the Smith = smith | tree rules |
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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