The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 64
“We must not sing upon these waters; singing would turn the ship from its right course, songs would hinder the rowers.
Who acts: We, singing, songs · What happens: not sing, sing, turn, hinder · To what, where: waters, ship, right course, rowers · 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 (We, singing, songs), 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 | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sing | advmod |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 waters | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 waters | det |
| 8 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sing | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 turn | csubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 turn | aux |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sing | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 course | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 course | nmod:poss |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 course | amod |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hinder | punct |
| 20 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hinder | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hinder | aux |
| 22 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 turn | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rowers | det |
| 24 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hinder | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express in a quote | must | We | this waters | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | would | singing | the ship | ship's right course | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ship=Theme from course=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | hinder in a quote | would | songs | the rowers | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer rower=Eventuality |
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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