The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 23
“See how they toil in these empty waters.”
Who acts: you, fishermen · What happens: see, toil · To what, where: empty waters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, fishermen), 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 toil | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 toil | nsubj |
| 5 | toil | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 See | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 waters | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 waters | det |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 waters | amod |
| 9 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 toil | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | toil in a quote | present | fishermen = fisherman | this empty waters | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=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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