The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 62
Let us at least have a little song to cheer our drooping spirits.”
Who acts: you · What happens: let, have, cheer, droop · To what, where: us, little song, least, drooping spirits
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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 have | obl |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 song | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 song | amod |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cheer | mark |
| 10 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 song | acl |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 12 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 spirits | amod |
| 13 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cheer | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a little song | least | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cheer | to-infinitive | our drooping spirits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | droop | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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