The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 74
“Two men may on me safely sail, Ten men I surely will not fail; A hundred men with oars might row me; A thousand men could not o’erthrow me.”
Who acts: boat, hundred men, thousand men · What happens: sail, not fail, row, not o'erthrow · To what, where: Ten men, boat
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 (boat, hundred men, thousand men), 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 | _ | 8 sail | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 may | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sail | aux |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 may | obl |
| 7 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 8 sail | advmod |
| 8 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 men | punct |
| 10 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sail | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fail | nsubj |
| 13 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 16 fail | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fail | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fail | advmod |
| 16 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 men | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 row | punct |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 men | nummod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 row | nsubj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 oars | case |
| 22 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 men | nmod |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 row | aux |
| 24 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sail | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 row | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 o’erthrow | punct |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 men | det |
| 28 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 men | nummod |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 o’erthrow | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 o’erthrow | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 o’erthrow | advmod |
| 32 | o’erthrow | o'erthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 row | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 o’erthrow | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sail | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail in a quote | may | Ten men | safely property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not fail in a quote | future | the boat = boat | Ten men not said here | surely property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | row in a quote | might | a hundred men with oars | the boat = boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not o'erthrow in a quote | could | a thousand men | the boat = boat | 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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