The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 110

Joyfully the prince of smiths handled the oar, and loudly he shouted to the wind as he saw the red prow cleaving the waves and knew that he was speeding homeward.

Who acts: prince, red prow · What happens: handle, shout, see, cleave, know, speed · To what, where: oar, wind, red prow, waves, homeward · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, red prow), 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	Joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	6 handled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handled	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 smiths	case
5	smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prince	nmod
6	handled	handle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oar	det
8	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shouted	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shouted	cc
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	13 shouted	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shouted	nsubj
13	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handled	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shouted	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 saw	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shouted	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prow	det
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prow	amod
22	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
23	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 prow	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 waves	det
25	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cleaving	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 knew	cc
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 speeding	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 speeding	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 speeding	aux
31	speeding	speed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 knew	ccomp
32	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speeding	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	handle	past	the prince of smiths	the oar		joyfully property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	Prince		the wind	loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient
3	see	past	Prince	the red prow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prow=Stimulus
4	cleave	gerund	the red prow not said here	the waves			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient
5	know	past	Prince not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	speed	past · progressive	Prince	homeward			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Agent

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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Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 110