The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 109
Like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove, the boat glided with incredible smoothness over the chilly waters.
Who acts: boat · What happens: shelter, glide · To what, where: chilly waters
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 (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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 waterfowl | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 waterfowl | det |
| 3 | waterfowl | waterfowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cove | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 cove | det |
| 6 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cove | amod |
| 7 | cove | cove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waterfowl | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 waterfowl | punct |
| 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 | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 smoothness | case |
| 13 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 smoothness | amod |
| 14 | smoothness | smoothness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glided | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 waters | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 waters | det |
| 17 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 waters | amod |
| 18 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glided | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | glide | past | the boat | the chilly waters | like a waterfowl in some sheltered cove; with incredible smoothness | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=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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