The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 145
Drive away the mists that blind us, but blow gently upon our crimson vessel, and waft, oh! waft it safely southward to the shores of Hero Land.”
Who acts: you · What happens: drive away, blow · To what, where: mists
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 (you), 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 | Drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Drive | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mists | det |
| 4 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drive | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mists | amod |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blow | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 blow | cc |
| 10 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drive | conj |
| 11 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 10 blow | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 vessel | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blow | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 waft | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 waft | cc |
| 18 | waft | waft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vessel | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drive | punct |
| 20 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 22 waft | discourse |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 oh | punct |
| 22 | waft | waft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drive | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 southward | nsubj |
| 24 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 25 southward | advmod |
| 25 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 22 waft | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 shores | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shores | det |
| 28 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 southward | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Land | case |
| 30 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Land | compound |
| 31 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shores | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drive | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | imperative | you not said here | the mists | waft obl; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme mist=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | blow | infinitive | you not said here | upon our crimson vessel and waft; gently property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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