The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 144
O winds, rise up higher and play with the clouds in heaven.
Who acts: winds · What happens: rise up, play · To what, where: heaven
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 (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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 winds | discourse |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 winds | punct |
| 4 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rise | compound:prt |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rise | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 play | cc |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rise | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 clouds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clouds | det |
| 11 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 play | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | present | winds | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | present | winds not said here | heaven | with the clouds | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloud=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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