The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 27
With it you can cleave the hardest rocks; with it you can vanquish all your foes; with it you can carve for yourself great honor and fame.”
Who acts: you · What happens: cleave, vanquish, carve · To what, where: hardest rocks, foes, great honor
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 (you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cleave | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cleave | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cleave | aux |
| 5 | cleave | cleave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rocks | det |
| 7 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 rocks | amod |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cleave | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanquish | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 vanquish | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 vanquish | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 vanquish | aux |
| 14 | vanquish | vanquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cleave | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 foes | det:predet |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 foes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vanquish | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 carve | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carve | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 carve | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 carve | aux |
| 23 | carve | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cleave | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 yourself | case |
| 25 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 carve | obl |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 honor | amod |
| 27 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carve | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fame | cc |
| 29 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 honor | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cleave | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cleave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cleave | can | you | the hardest rocks | with blade | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with it=Instrument | |||
| 2 | vanquish | can | you | your foes | with blade | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carve | can | you | great honor and fame | with blade; for yourself | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent honor=Product for yourself=Asset |
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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