The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 127
On the seventh day a white swan flew down as though inspecting his boat, a gray goose made its nest under the well-hung rudder, and a flock of swallows sat twittering upon the gunwales.
Who acts: white swan, gray goose, flock · What happens: fly down, inspect, make, hang, sit, twitter · To what, where: boat, nest, hung rudder
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 (white swan, gray goose, flock), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 swan | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swan | amod |
| 7 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 inspecting | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 inspecting | mark |
| 12 | inspecting | inspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 flew | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inspecting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 goose | det |
| 17 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goose | amod |
| 18 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 rudder | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rudder | det |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 hung | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 rudder | amod |
| 27 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sat | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sat | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 flock | det |
| 31 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sat | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 swallows | case |
| 33 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 flock | nmod |
| 34 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | conj |
| 35 | twittering | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 sat | advcl | |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 gunwales | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 gunwales | det |
| 38 | gunwales | gunwale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 twittering | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | past | a white swan | day | down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | inspect | gerund | a white swan not said here | plan's boat | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a gray goose | swan's nest | the hung rudder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | |||
| 4 | hang | participle | well property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sit | past | a flock of swallows | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | gerund | a flock of swallows not said here | upon the gunwales | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP 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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