The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 117
At length every spell was recited, every rune was sung, every magic word was spoken, and the wonderful vessel was completed—all except the nailing down of three long boards at the bottom of the hull.
Who acts: length · What happens: recite, sing, speak, complete · To what, where: spell, rune, length, magic word, wonderful vessel, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (length), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sung | obl |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 spell | det |
| 4 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recited | aux:pass |
| 6 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 length | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 rune | det |
| 9 | rune | rune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sung | aux:pass |
| 11 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoken | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 word | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 word | compound |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoken | aux:pass |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sung | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 completed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 completed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vessel | det |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vessel | amod |
| 22 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 completed | aux:pass |
| 24 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sung | conj |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 all | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 completed | parataxis |
| 27 | except | except | ADP | _ | 29 nailing | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 nailing | det |
| 29 | nailing | nailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 all | nmod |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 boards | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 boards | case |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 boards | nummod |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 boards | amod |
| 34 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 completed | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 bottom | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bottom | det |
| 37 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 completed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hull | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hull | det |
| 40 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bottom | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | past · passive | length not said here | every spell | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · passive | every rune | length | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past · passive | every magic word | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | complete | past · passive | the wonderful vessel | the bottom of the hull | down three long boards | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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