The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 49
Give lightness to the rudder, give skill to the helmsman, and swiftly bear us over this vast expanse of water.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, bear · To what, where: lightness, rudder, skill, helmsman, us, vast expanse
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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | lightness | lightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 rudder | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rudder | det |
| 5 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 helmsman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 helmsman | det |
| 11 | helmsman | helmsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bear | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bear | cc |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 bear | advmod |
| 15 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bear | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 expanse | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 expanse | det |
| 19 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 expanse | amod |
| 20 | expanse | expanse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bear | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expanse | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | lightness | the rudder | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lightness=Theme to rudder=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | skill | the helmsman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Theme to helmsman=Recipient | |||
| 3 | bear | infinitive | you not said here | us | this vast expanse of water | swiftly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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