The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 143
O waves, do not play too roughly with us, do not fill our ship with water, do not break her ribs or hull beams.
Who acts: O waves · What happens: not play, not fill, not break · To what, where: ship, ribs, O waves
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 (O waves), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waves | compound |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 play | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 play | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 play | advmod |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waves | acl:relcl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 roughly | advmod |
| 8 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 6 play | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 play | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fill | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 fill | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fill | advmod |
| 14 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 play | conj |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ship | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 break | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 break | advmod |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 play | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ribs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 break | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 beams | cc |
| 26 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beams | compound |
| 27 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ribs | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | infinitive · do-support | O waves not said here | with us; roughly property | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not fill | infinitive · do-support | O waves not said here | our ship | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ship=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 3 | not break | infinitive · do-support | O waves not said here | sea's ribs or hull beams | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rib=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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