The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 95
The oar also was of copper, and the sail was painted red and yellow.
What happens: be, paint · To what, where: 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: 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 | 2 oar | det |
| 2 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 copper | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 copper | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 copper | case |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oar | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 painted | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sail | det |
| 10 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 painted | aux:pass |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 painted | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 yellow | cc |
| 15 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 red | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of copper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | paint | past · passive | the oar | the sail nsubj:pass; red property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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