The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 31
Stand back and see how quickly I shall remove it to our waiting ship.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stand back, see, remove · To what, where: strength, waiting ship · 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 (you, I), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Stand | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 quickly | advmod |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 remove | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 remove | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 remove | aux |
| 9 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 remove | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ship | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ship | nmod:poss |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ship | compound |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remove | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand back | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | remove | shall | I | strength | our waiting ship | quickly property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ship=Destination |
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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