The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 66
Help me take the slippery monster from its lair beneath the waters.”
Who acts: you, me · What happens: help, take · To what, where: me, slippery monster, lair
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 (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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Help | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monster | det |
| 5 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 monster | amod |
| 6 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 lair | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | me not said here | the slippery monster | monster's lair | beneath the waters | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent monster=Theme from lair=Initial_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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/25/66/