The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 91
The promised boat was there, moored to the landing by a hempen rope.
Who acts: promised boat · What happens: promise, be, moor
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 (promised 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 boat | amod |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moored | punct |
| 7 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 there | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 landing | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 landing | det |
| 10 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moored | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 rope | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rope | det |
| 13 | hempen | hempen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rope | amod |
| 14 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moored | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the promised boat | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | moor | participle | the promised boat not said here | to the landing; by a hempen rope | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to landing=Co-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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