The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 66
I see thee in the mist-filled air, I hear thy voice calling from the rainbow arch.
Who acts: I, voice · What happens: see, fill, hear, call · To what, where: thee, filled air, voice, rainbow arch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voice), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 6 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mist | punct |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 air | amod |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hear | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obj |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hear | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 arch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arch | det |
| 18 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arch | compound |
| 19 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | thee | the filled air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | mist compound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hear | present | I | thy voice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | thy voice not said here | the rainbow arch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from arch=Source |
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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