The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 115
He dismissed the North Wind with warm thanks for his friendly service; and then with a few skilful strokes of the oar, he drove his stanch little boat high up on the sloping beach.
Who acts: voyager, North · What happens: dismiss, wind, drive, slope, service, stroke · To what, where: stanch little boat, sloping beach, oar
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 (voyager, North), 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 dismissed | nsubj |
| 2 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 North | det |
| 4 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wind | nsubj |
| 5 | Wind | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismissed | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thanks | case |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thanks | amod |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wind | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 service | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 service | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 service | amod |
| 12 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanks | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 strokes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strokes | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 strokes | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 strokes | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 strokes | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strokes | amod |
| 19 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strokes | amod |
| 20 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dismissed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 oar | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 oar | det |
| 23 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strokes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drove | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drove | nsubj |
| 26 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismissed | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 boat | nmod:poss |
| 28 | stanch | stanch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 boat | amod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 boat | amod |
| 30 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drove | obj |
| 31 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 up | advmod |
| 32 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 drove | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 beach | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 beach | det |
| 35 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 beach | amod |
| 36 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drove | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | past | voyager | with a few skilful strokes of the oar | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wind | present | the North | with warm thanks for voyager's friendly service | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | voyager | voyager's stanch little boat | the sloping beach | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boat=Theme on beach=Destination | |||
| 4 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | service | voyager | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | stroke | the oar | nom stroke «act 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.
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