The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 114
These, one after the other he sang, and he recited the runes whereby to shape the whole into a stanch and swift-sailing vessel.
Who acts: magic · What happens: sing, recite, shape, sail · To what, where: one, runes, whole, stanch
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 (magic), 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 | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 These | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sang | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 other | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 other | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 recited | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 recited | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 recited | nsubj |
| 12 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sang | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 runes | det |
| 14 | runes | rune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 recited | obj |
| 15 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 shape | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shape | mark |
| 17 | shape | shape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 recited | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 whole | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shape | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 stanch | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stanch | det |
| 22 | stanch | stanch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shape | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 vessel | cc |
| 24 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 vessel | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 swift | punct |
| 26 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 vessel | amod |
| 27 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stanch | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | magic | this one after the other | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | recite | past | magic | the runes | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shape | to-infinitive | magic not said here | the whole | a stanch and swift sailing vessel | whereby property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent whole=Material into stanch=Product | ||
| 4 | sail | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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