The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 148
Bring with thee a magic feather—yes, two or three—that they may put a charm upon this ship and protect it from disaster.”
Who acts: you, cliffs · What happens: bring, put, protect · To what, where: magic feather, charm, ship
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, cliffs), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 thee | case |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Bring | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feather | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feather | compound |
| 6 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 8 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 Bring | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 two | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 yes | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 three | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 two | conj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 charm | det |
| 19 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 ship | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 ship | det |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 protect | cc |
| 24 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 put | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 protect | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 disaster | case |
| 27 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 protect | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a magic feather | with thee | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent feather=Destination yes=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | may | cliffs = cliff | a charm | this ship | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme upon ship=Destination | |||
| 3 | protect | infinitive | cliffs = cliff not said here | charm | from disaster | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from disaster=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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