The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 20
He will fly away with her; he will carry her far, far away into his own country, there to live with him forever.”
Who acts: eagle · What happens: fly away, carry, live · To what, where: Wainamoinen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 fly | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fly | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | obj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 far | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carry | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 away | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 live | expl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 carry | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | obl |
| 26 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 23 live | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | future | eagle | with Wainamoinen; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | future | eagle | Wainamoinen | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | eagle not said here | there | with eagle; forever property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=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.
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