The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 20
“Seize on him, and into Your flying boat lay him; Then far to the Frozen North, Gently convey him.
Who acts: you · What happens: seize, fly, lie, convey · To what, where: tree, flying boat
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seize | punct |
| 2 | Seize | seize | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Seize | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 boat | case |
| 8 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 boat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 boat | amod |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Seize | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 far | punct |
| 14 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Seize | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 North | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 North | det |
| 18 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 North | compound |
| 19 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 far | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 convey | punct |
| 21 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 22 convey | advmod |
| 22 | convey | convey | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Seize | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 convey | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | on tree; far property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fly in a quote | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | past | you not said here | tree | Your flying boat | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 4 | convey in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree | gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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