The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 100
He cut the mooring rope, and took the copper paddle in his hands; he sat down in the stern to do the steering.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: cut, take, sit down, do · To what, where: mooring rope, copper paddle, hands, stern, steering
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rope | det |
| 4 | mooring | mooring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rope | compound |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 paddle | det |
| 10 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paddle | compound |
| 11 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sat | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 stern | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stern | det |
| 21 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sat | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 steering | det |
| 25 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Ilmarinen | the mooring rope | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Ilmarinen not said here | the copper paddle | Ilmarinen's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paddle=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | Ilmarinen | the stern | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stern=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | the steering | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steering=Eventuality |
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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