The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 125
For five summer days he sat there—yes, for six long days he tarried by the shore not knowing what to do.
Who acts: plan · What happens: sit, tarry, not know, do
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 (plan), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 days | compound |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sat | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sat | advmod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 9 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sat | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tarried | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tarried | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tarried | nsubj |
| 16 | tarried | tarry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tarried | obl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 knowing | advmod |
| 21 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 tarried | advcl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 do | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 knowing | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | plan | there | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tarry | past | plan | day | by the shore | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shore=Location | |||
| 3 | not know | gerund | plan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | plan not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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