The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 101
A gentle wind filled the sail, and the boat glided smoothly, swiftly away from the land.
Who acts: gentle wind, boat · What happens: fill, glide · To what, where: sail
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 (gentle wind, boat), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sail | det |
| 6 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glided | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glided | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | nsubj |
| 11 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 12 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 11 glided | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 away | punct |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 away | advmod |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 glided | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 away | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | a gentle wind | the sail | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | glide | past | the boat | away, smoothly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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