The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 47
“Give your eyes a moment’s rest and then look again.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, look · To what, where: eyes
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), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Give | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 look | advmod |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | a moment's rest obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient rest=Theme | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | then; again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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