The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 92
It was a small vessel, but roomy enough for one passenger who would also be captain and crew.
Who acts: boat, one passenger · What happens: be · To what, where: small vessel, captain
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, one passenger), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 vessel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vessel | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vessel | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vessel | amod |
| 5 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 roomy | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 roomy | cc |
| 8 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vessel | appos |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 roomy | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 passenger | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 passenger | nummod |
| 12 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roomy | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 captain | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 captain | aux |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 captain | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 captain | cop |
| 17 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passenger | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crew | cc |
| 19 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 captain | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vessel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boat | a small vessel | roomy for one passenger appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | would | one passenger | captain and crew | crew conj | tree rules |
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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