The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 62
“The Minstrel is building a magic vessel to cruise on northern seas, and he has sent me to find a tree from which to make the beams and keel.
Who acts: Minstrel, Sampsa, tree · What happens: build, cruise, send, find, make, keel · To what, where: magic vessel, northern seas, Sampsa, tree, beams
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 (Minstrel, Sampsa, tree), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 building | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minstrel | det |
| 3 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 building | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 building | aux |
| 5 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 vessel | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vessel | amod |
| 8 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 building | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cruise | mark |
| 10 | cruise | cruise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vessel | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 seas | case |
| 12 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seas | amod |
| 13 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cruise | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 building | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 make | nsubj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tree | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 beams | det |
| 29 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 make | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 keel | cc |
| 31 | keel | keel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 make | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | present · progressive | the Minstrel | a magic vessel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Product | ||||
| 2 | cruise in a quote | to-infinitive | the Minstrel not said here | a magic vessel not said here | northern seas | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | send in a quote | present · perfect | Sampsa | Sampsa | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | Sampsa not said here | a tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | a tree | the beams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beam=Product | ||||
| 6 | keel in a quote | infinitive | a tree not said here | tree rules |
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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