The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 56
“The wizard who sang my boards together bade me wait here for the hero who is to guide me across the sea.
Who acts: wizard, hero · What happens: sing, bade, wait, be · To what, where: boards, boat, sea
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 (wizard, hero), 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 | _ | 9 bade | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wizard | det |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wizard | acl:relcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 boards | nmod:poss |
| 7 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sang | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 sang | advmod |
| 9 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bade | xcomp |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wait | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 hero | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hero | det |
| 15 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 guide | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 guide | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 guide | mark |
| 19 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hero | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 guide | obj |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guide | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | the wizard | my boards | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location board=Theme | |||
| 2 | bade in a quote | past | the wizard | the boat = boat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | infinitive | the wizard not said here | here | for the hero | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the hero | the sea | me obj; guide property | 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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