The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 96
The grain of it is straight, and no other wood can equal it for withstanding the weather and the salt sea-water.”
Who acts: grain, salt · What happens: be, withstand, water · To what, where: weather
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 (grain, salt), 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 grain | det |
| 2 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 equal | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grain | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 equal | cop |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 equal | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 equal | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 equal | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 wood | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wood | amod |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 equal | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 equal | aux |
| 13 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 equal | obj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 withstanding | mark |
| 16 | withstanding | withstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 equal | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 weather | det |
| 18 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 withstanding | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 21 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 water | nsubj |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 water | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sea | punct |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 withstanding | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 equal | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | the grain of sound | no other wood nsubj; sound obj; equal, straight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | withstand | gerund | the grain of sound not said here | the weather | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | water | salt | 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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