The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 65
We must wait till the sky is clear and the sun shines warm on land and sea.”
Who acts: We, sky, sun · What happens: wait, be, shine · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sky, sun), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | aux |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 clear | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clear | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 clear | cop |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wait | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shines | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shines | nsubj |
| 12 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | conj |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shines | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shines | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sea | cc |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 land | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | must | We | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the sky | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | present | the sun | land and sea | warm property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
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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