The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 66
Nay, nay, keep silent, and sing no songs till we sight the shores of our own fair land.”
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, sing · To what, where: songs
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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 keep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 keep | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nay | punct |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sing | cc |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 songs | det |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sing | obj |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sight | nsubj |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sing | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shores | det |
| 16 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 land | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 land | amod |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 land | amod |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shores | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | silent property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | you not said here | no songs | till sight we | the shores of our own fair land obj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent song=Beneficiary shore=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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