The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 91
“Wield the oars with love, girls, wield them with all your power.
Who acts: you · What happens: wield · To what, where: oars
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), 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 | _ | 2 Wield | punct |
| 2 | Wield | wield | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oars | det |
| 4 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Wield | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wield | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 girls | punct |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 love | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wield | punct |
| 10 | wield | wield | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wield | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wield | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 power | det:predet |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 power | nmod:poss |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wield | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wield in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the oars | with love and girls | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme | |||
| 2 | wield in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | oars = oar | with your power | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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