The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 14
Save yourself while you may, foolish fellow, foolish fellow!”
Who acts: you · What happens: save · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. 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 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Save | iobj |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 may | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 may | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Save | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fellow | punct |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Save | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fellow | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Save | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative | you not said here | yourself | foolish fellow and foolish fellow parataxis | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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