The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 65
“O my friend and brother, we must hasten to Pohyola and seize that mill of plenty, that we may bring it to our own sweet land.
Who acts: friend, we · What happens: hasten, seize, bring · To what, where: Pohyola, mill, own sweet land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, 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 | _ | 10 hasten | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 friend | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hasten | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brother | cc |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hasten | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hasten | aux |
| 10 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Pohyola | case |
| 12 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hasten | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seize | cc |
| 14 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hasten | conj |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 mill | det |
| 16 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seize | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plenty | case |
| 18 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mill | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | aux |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hasten | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 land | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 land | amod |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 land | amod |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten in a quote | must | my friend and brother | Pohyola | we nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to pohyola=Result | |||
| 2 | seize in a quote | infinitive | my friend and brother not said here | that mill of plenty | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | may | we | mill | our own sweet land | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to land=Destination |
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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