The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 147
“O thou mighty eagle, come down from thy eyry on the heaven-high cliffs, and help us.
Who acts: thou, mighty eagle · What happens: eagle, come down, help · To what, where: eyry, us
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 (thou, mighty eagle), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 eagle | discourse |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 eagle | nsubj |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eagle | amod |
| 5 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eagle | punct |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 eyry | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 eyry | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyry | eyry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 cliffs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cliffs | det |
| 14 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 high | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 heaven | punct |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cliffs | amod |
| 17 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eagle in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come down in a quote | infinitive | mighty eagle | thy eyry | on the high cliffs; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from eyry=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | help in a quote | infinitive | mighty eagle not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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