The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 77
Work quickly, work powerfully, and help us soon to arrive safe in Wainola’s sheltered harbor!”
Who acts: you · What happens: work, help, arrive, shelter · To what, where: us, sheltered harbor
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 | Work | work | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Work | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Work | conj |
| 5 | powerfully | powerfully | ADV | _ | 4 work | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 help | cc |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Work | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 help | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 arrive | mark |
| 12 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | advcl |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 arrive | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 harbor | case |
| 15 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 harbor | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Wainola | case |
| 17 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 harbor | amod |
| 18 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrive | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Work | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | imperative | you not said here | quickly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | work | infinitive | you not said here | powerfully property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | you not said here | us | soon property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | arrive | to-infinitive | you not said here | Wainola's sheltered harbor | safe property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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