The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 45
Let us ride along the beach and learn what we may.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, ride, learn · To what, where: us, beach
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, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ride | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 learn | cc |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ride | conj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 learn | obj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 may | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | infinitive | us not said here | the beach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along beach=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | learn | present | us not said here | what obj | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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