The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 46
Who would saw the boards, and who would carry them to the shore?
What happens: see, carry · To what, where: boards, shore
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | aux |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boards | det |
| 5 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carry | cc |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | aux |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | would | the boards | Who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer board=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry | would | boards = board | the shore | who nsubj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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