The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 65
The night and darkness would find us bewildered, and we should indeed be lost on a shoreless sea.
Who acts: night, us · What happens: find, bewilder, lose · To what, where: us, we, shoreless sea
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 (night, us), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 darkness | cc |
| 4 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | conj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 find | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 lost | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lost | aux:pass |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bewildered | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 18 | shoreless | shoreless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sea | amod |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | the night and darkness | us | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bewilder | participle | us not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lose | should · passive | we | a shoreless sea | indeed property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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