The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 141
He raised his hands high above his head and called upon all the powers of air and sky and sea to befriend the heroes in their dire distress.
Who acts: Wind, hands · What happens: raise, call, befriend, distress · To what, where: head, heroes, dire distress · 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 (Wind, hands), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 high | nsubj |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 raised | ccomp |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 raised | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 powers | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 powers | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 powers | det |
| 14 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 powers | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sky | cc |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 air | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sea | cc |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 air | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 befriend | mark |
| 22 | befriend | befriend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heroes | det |
| 24 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 befriend | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 distress | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 distress | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 distress | amod |
| 28 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 befriend | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Wind | Wind's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent above head=Destination | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | Wind not said here | upon all powers of air and sky and sea | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | befriend | to-infinitive | Wind not said here | the heroes | hands's dire distress | tree rules | |||
| 4 | distress | hands = hand | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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