The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 21
“Blow storm wind, blow whirlwind, Let nothing delay you.
Who acts: you, nothing · What happens: blow, let, delay · To what, where: storm wind, whirlwind, nothing, you
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, nothing), 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 Blow | punct |
| 2 | Blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wind | compound |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Blow | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Blow | conj |
| 7 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Blow | conj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 Let | obj |
| 11 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 delay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | imperative | you not said here | storm wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blow in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | whirlwind | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whirlwind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | delay in a quote | infinitive | nothing not said here | you | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent you=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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