--- title: I shall never see thee skimming over the waves; thou wilt never carr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: I shall never see thee skimming over the waves; thou wilt never carry me to Pohyola’s dreary shores; thou wilt never bring the Maid of Beauty hither to be the queen of my house and the joy of my heart!” Who acts: I, thee, thou. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thee, thou), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:17:12 # text = I shall never see thee skimming over the waves; thou wilt never carry me to Pohyola’s dreary shores; thou wilt never bring the Maid of Beauty hither to be the queen of my house and the joy of my heart!” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obj _ _ 6 skimming skim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 12 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 Pohyola Pohyola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 dreary dreary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shores shore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nsubj _ _ 23 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Maid Maid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 hither hither ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 advcl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | shall | I | thee | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **skim** | gerund | thee *not said here* | | | the waves | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **carry** | future | thou | me | | Pohyola's dreary shores | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination | | 4 | **not** **bring** | future | thou | | the Maid of Beauty | | | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument maid=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* | the queen and the joy of my heart | | | | of my house; the joy of my heart *conj* | tree rules | | 6 | **joy** | | | my heart | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/13/) - ↑ back to [The Wisdom Keeper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/17/)