The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 11
If the land way pleases you, I say no more; but it is beset with perils, and we must be well armed.
Who acts: land way, I, way, we · What happens: please, say, be · To what, where: you, more, beset · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land way, I, way, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 pleases | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | compound |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleases | nsubj |
| 5 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pleases | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleases | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 more | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 say | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 beset | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 beset | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beset | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beset | cop |
| 16 | beset | beset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 perils | case |
| 18 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beset | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 armed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 armed | cc |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 armed | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 armed | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 armed | cop |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 armed | advmod |
| 25 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 say | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please a condition, not said to happen | present | the land way | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I | no more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | way | beset | with perils | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | must | we | armed, well property | tree rules |
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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