The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 40
“Alight and rest yourself and your steed.”
What happens: rest · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Alight | punct |
| 2 | Alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rest | cc |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Alight | conj |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 rest | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 steed | cc |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 steed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yourself | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alight | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | infinitive | yourself | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=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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