The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 37
Nevertheless, I beg that I may find in this place some shelter till this fearful storm has passed.”
Who acts: I, place · What happens: beg, find, pass · To what, where: place, shelter
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 (I, place), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 beg | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beg | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obl |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 shelter | det |
| 13 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 storm | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 storm | det |
| 16 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 storm | amod |
| 17 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shelter | nmod |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | aux |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | nevertheless property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | may | I | this place | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | present · perfect · passive | this place not said here | some shelter till this fearful storm | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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