The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 34
It was his intention, when this boat was finished, to make a secret voyage to the Frozen Land and boldly make known his suit to the Maid of Beauty.
Who acts: sailing · What happens: be, finish, make, know · To what, where: intention, boat, secret voyage, suit
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 (sailing), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 intention | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intention | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 intention | nmod:poss |
| 4 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finished | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 finished | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 finished | aux:pass |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 intention | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 finished | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voyage | det |
| 15 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voyage | amod |
| 16 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Land | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Land | det |
| 19 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Land | compound |
| 20 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 voyage | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 make | cc |
| 22 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 make | advmod |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | conj |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 make | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 suit | nmod:poss |
| 26 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 known | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Maid | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Maid | det |
| 29 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 suit | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Beauty | case |
| 31 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Maid | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sailing | maiden's intention | maiden nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | finish | past · passive | this boat | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | a secret voyage | to the Frozen Land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | boldly property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | participle | maiden's suit | to the Maid of Beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer suit=Stimulus |
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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