The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 110
These are for the beams, these for the keel, and these for the well-shaped hull.
Who acts: These · What happens: be, shape
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 beams | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beams | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 beams | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beams | det |
| 5 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 these | punct |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 beams | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 keel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 keel | det |
| 10 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 these | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 these | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 these | cc |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 keel | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 hull | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hull | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaped | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 well | punct |
| 18 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hull | amod |
| 19 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 these | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | These | for the beams | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | well compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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