The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 86
“Row hard, row hard, and drive our good ship o’er this wide expanse of water, speed it through this treeless region.”
Who acts: Row · What happens: row, drive, speed · To what, where: good ship, ship, treeless region
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 (Row), 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 | _ | 5 row | punct |
| 2 | Row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 row | nsubj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Row | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Row | punct |
| 5 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 row | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drive | cc |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 row | conj |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ship | nmod:poss |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ship | amod |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obj |
| 13 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 16 expanse | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 expanse | det |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 expanse | amod |
| 16 | expanse | expanse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expanse | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 speed | punct |
| 20 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 row | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 speed | obj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 region | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 region | det |
| 24 | treeless | treeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 region | amod |
| 25 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 row | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 row | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row in a quote | infinitive | Row | hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | infinitive | Row not said here | our good ship | o'er this wide expanse of water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | speed in a quote | infinitive | Row not said here | ship | this treeless region | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme through region=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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