The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 142
“We are going to the Frozen Land, to the shores of Pohyola, where we shall ask Dame Louhi to share the Sampo with us.”
Who acts: We · What happens: go, ask, share · To what, where: Frozen Land, Dame, Sampo
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 (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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Land | det |
| 7 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Land | compound |
| 8 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shores | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 shores | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shores | det |
| 12 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 going | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pohyola | case |
| 14 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shores | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 ask | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 ask | aux |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | conj |
| 20 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ask | obj |
| 21 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Dame | flat |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 share | mark |
| 23 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sampo | det |
| 25 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 share | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 share | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | We | the Frozen Land | to the shores of Pohyola | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location to shore=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | shall | we | Dame | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent dame=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | share not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | the Sampo | with us | 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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