The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 84
At the break of day a boat will be waiting for you at the landing.
Who acts: boat · What happens: wait, break · To what, where: break, day
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 break | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 break | det |
| 3 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 waiting | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 waiting | aux |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 waiting | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 landing | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 landing | det |
| 15 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | future · progressive | a boat | the break of day | for you; at the landing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at break=Location | |||
| 2 | break | day | nom break «event 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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