The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 120
O Maiden, sink them all beneath the billows, but save the Sampo.
What happens: sink, save · To what, where: Maiden, Sampo
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: 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 Maiden | discourse |
| 2 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sink | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sink | punct |
| 4 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sink | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 billows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 billows | det |
| 9 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sink | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 save | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 save | cc |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sink | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sampo | det |
| 14 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | Maiden | beneath the billows; maidens = maiden obj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | the Sampo | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=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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