The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 33
Then, unknown to Ilmarinen—unknown to all his friends and neighbors—he set to work to build a boat, roomy and stanch and shaped for swiftest sailing.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: set, work, build, shape · To what, where: boat
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 (maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 unknown | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 unknown | punct |
| 3 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Ilmarinen | case |
| 5 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 unknown | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 unknown | punct |
| 7 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 unknown | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 friends | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unknown | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 neighbors | cc |
| 13 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 friends | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unknown | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 build | mark |
| 20 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 work | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boat | det |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 build | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roomy | punct |
| 24 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boat | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stanch | cc |
| 26 | stanch | stanch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boat | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shaped | cc |
| 28 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 set | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 sailing | case |
| 30 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 sailing | amod |
| 31 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shaped | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unknown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | a boat and roomy and stanch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product | ||||
| 4 | shape | participle | maiden not said here | for swiftest sailing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for sailing=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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