The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 17
“To-morrow we shall have better luck; we shall make a great catch, and soon we shall sail back to Wainola with a full cargo and great plenty of salmon.”
Who acts: we · What happens: have, make, sail back · To what, where: better luck, great catch, Wainola
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 luck | amod |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 catch | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 catch | amod |
| 16 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sail | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sail | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 sail | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sail | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sail | aux |
| 22 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | parataxis |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 sail | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Wainola | case |
| 25 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sail | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 cargo | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cargo | det |
| 28 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cargo | amod |
| 29 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sail | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 plenty | cc |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 plenty | amod |
| 32 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cargo | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 salmon | case |
| 34 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 plenty | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | we | better luck | to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | shall | we | a great catch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Product | ||||
| 3 | sail back in a quote | shall | we | Wainola | with a full cargo and great plenty of salmon; soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to wainola=Trajectory |
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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