The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 145
“O take me with you! take me with you!” shouted the fisherman, waving his long arms and leaping into the sea.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: take, shout, wave, leap · To what, where: fisherman, long arms, sea · 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 (fisherman), 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 | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 take | discourse |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shouted | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fisherman | det |
| 16 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shouted | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waving | punct |
| 18 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 shouted | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 arms | amod |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 waving | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaping | cc |
| 23 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 waving | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | the fisherman = fisherman | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | the fisherman = fisherman | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the fisherman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | the fisherman not said here | fisherman's long arms | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leap | gerund | the fisherman not said here | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=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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