The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 42
The place which Wainamoinen chose for the building of his boat was on the shore of a shady island well concealed behind a lofty headland.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, place · What happens: choose, be, conceal · To what, where: place, shore, shady island, lofty headland
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 (Wainamoinen, place), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shore | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 chose | obj |
| 4 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | nsubj |
| 5 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 place | acl:relcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 building | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 building | det |
| 8 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 boat | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 boat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 building | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shore | cop |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 18 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 island | amod |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shore | nmod |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 concealed | advmod |
| 21 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 island | acl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 headland | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 headland | det |
| 24 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 headland | amod |
| 25 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 concealed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Wainamoinen | the place | for the building of place's boat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Theme for building=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | the place | the shore | of a shady island | tree rules | |||
| 3 | conceal | participle | a shady island not said here | a lofty headland | well property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind headland=Location |
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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