The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 157

“It is well to rejoice and be merry,” said the steadfast Minstrel, “but we are still upon the uncertain sea, we are still far away from our own safe home land.”

Who acts: gladness, steadfast Minstrel, we · What happens: be, say · To what, where: own safe home land · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gladness, steadfast Minstrel, we), 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	_	6 rejoice	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rejoice	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoice	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 rejoice	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 rejoice	mark
6	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 merry	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 merry	cop
9	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rejoice	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rejoice	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rejoice	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Minstrel	det
14	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Minstrel	amod
15	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sea	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 sea	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sea	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sea	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sea	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	25 sea	advmod
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
24	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sea	amod
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Minstrel	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 away	punct
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 away	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 away	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 far	advmod
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 away	advmod
31	away	away	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	37 land	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 land	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 land	amod
35	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 land	amod
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 land	compound
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 away	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	gladness			rejoice, well property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	infinitive	gladness not said here			merry property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the steadfast Minstrel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	we		still	upon the uncertain sea	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	we	our own safe home land	still	away, far property	tree rules

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 157

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 157