The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 23
If the fish should sink, it will drag our vessel down into the depths; if it should rise, it will tumble us all headlong into the sea.”
Who acts: fish · What happens: sink, drag down, rise, tumble · To what, where: vessel, depths, us
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 sink | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sink | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sink | aux |
| 5 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drag | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sink | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drag | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drag | aux |
| 9 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drag | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 drag | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 depths | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 depths | det |
| 15 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drag | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 rise | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rise | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rise | aux |
| 20 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drag | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tumble | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tumble | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 tumble | aux |
| 24 | tumble | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 rise | conj |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 tumble | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 headlong | advmod |
| 27 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tumble | xcomp |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sea | det |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tumble | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink a condition, not said to happen | should | the fish | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | drag down | future | fish | our vessel | the depths | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||
| 3 | rise a condition, not said to happen | should | fish | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tumble | future | fish | us | into the sea; headlong property | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient into sea=Co-Patient |
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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