The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 94
Its prow was tipped with copper, sharp and strong.
What happens: tip · To what, where: prow
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: 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 prow | nmod:poss |
| 2 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tipped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tipped | aux:pass |
| 4 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 copper | case |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tipped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sharp | punct |
| 8 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tipped | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 strong | cc |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sharp | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | past · passive | boat's prow | with copper | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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