The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 28
Tell us whether the horizon is clear or whether clouds are rising in the air to vex us.
Who acts: you, horizon, clouds · What happens: tell, be, rise, vex · To what, where: us, air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, horizon, clouds), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 7 clear | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horizon | det |
| 5 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clear | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clear | cop |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 rising | cc |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 rising | mark |
| 10 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rising | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rising | aux |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 clear | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rising | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 vex | mark |
| 17 | vex | vex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rising | advcl |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 vex | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the horizon | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | present · progressive | clouds | the air | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | ||||
| 4 | vex | to-infinitive | clouds not said here | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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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