The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 10
“We must pursue the hated robbers; we must overcome and destroy them and bring the precious Sampo back to our own shores.
Who acts: We · What happens: pursue, hate, overcome, destroy, bring · To what, where: hated robbers, robbers, precious Sampo, own shores
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 4 pursue | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pursue | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pursue | aux |
| 4 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 robbers | det |
| 6 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 robbers | amod |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pursue | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 overcome | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 overcome | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 overcome | aux |
| 11 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pursue | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 destroy | cc |
| 13 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 overcome | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 destroy | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 overcome | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sampo | det |
| 18 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Sampo | amod |
| 19 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 shores | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shores | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shores | amod |
| 24 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bring | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pursue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue in a quote | must | We | the hated robbers | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hate in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | overcome in a quote | must | we | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | robbers = robber | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | the precious Sampo | our own shores | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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