The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 123
She called to her servants, the mists, the clouds, and the winds, to wreak vengeance upon the heroes, to drive their ship far out of its course and sink it in the bottomless sea.
Who acts: Pohyola, winds · What happens: call, wreak, drive, sink · To what, where: servants, vengeance, ship, course, bottomless sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pohyola, winds), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mists | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mists | det |
| 8 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 servants | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clouds | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clouds | det |
| 11 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 servants | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wreak | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wreak | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winds | det |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wreak | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wreak | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wreak | mark |
| 18 | wreak | wreak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | conj |
| 19 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wreak | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 heroes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heroes | det |
| 22 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wreak | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drive | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 drive | mark |
| 25 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wreak | parataxis |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ship | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drive | obj |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 drive | advmod |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 course | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 course | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 course | nmod:poss |
| 32 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drive | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sink | cc |
| 34 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 drive | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sink | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 sea | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sea | det |
| 38 | bottomless | bottomless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sea | amod |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sink | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Pohyola | Pohyola's servants and the mists and the clouds | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | wreak | to-infinitive | the winds | vengeance | upon the heroes | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | clouds's ship | ship's course | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme out course=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sink | infinitive | vengeance | the bottomless sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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