The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 76
Raise up a barrier between her ship and ours—a barrier past which she cannot sail.
Who acts: you, Mistress · What happens: raise up, not sail · To what, where: barrier, ship
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, Mistress), 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 | Raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Raise | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 barrier | det |
| 4 | barrier | barrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Raise | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ship | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 barrier | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ours | cc |
| 9 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ship | conj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 barrier | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 barrier | det |
| 12 | barrier | barrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Raise | obl |
| 13 | past | past | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sail | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sail | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sail | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 sail | advmod |
| 18 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 barrier | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise up | imperative | you not said here | a barrier | Mistress's ship ours | a barrier obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent barrier=Theme between ship=Destination | ||
| 2 | not sail | can | Mistress | a barrier | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past which=Trajectory |
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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