The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 53
I long to be free, to speed over the water, to glide upon the waves.”
Who acts: I · What happens: long, be, speed, glide · To what, where: water, waves
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 long | nsubj |
| 2 | long | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 free | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 free | cop |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 long | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speed | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 speed | mark |
| 8 | speed | speed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glide | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 glide | mark |
| 14 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 speed | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 waves | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waves | det |
| 17 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 glide | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speed | to-infinitive | I not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | glide | to-infinitive | I not said here | the waves | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wave=Trajectory |
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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