The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 11
Sleep, and waken not till the golden sun rises bright in the Land of Heroes.
Who acts: Sleep, golden sun · What happens: not waken, rise · To what, where: Land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sleep, golden sun), 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 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waken | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waken | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 waken | cc |
| 4 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 waken | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 rises | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sun | amod |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rises | nsubj |
| 10 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waken | advcl |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rises | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Land | det |
| 14 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rises | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Heroes | case |
| 16 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Land | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waken | infinitive | Sleep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rise | present | the golden sun | the Land of Heroes | bright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in land=Location |
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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