The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 118

Then, instantly, and without sound, ten thousand shades who had been waiting unseen and intangible on the shore, glided also into the boat and stood beside him.

Who acts: thousand shades · What happens: wait, glide, stand · To what, where: shore, boat

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand shades), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 glided	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 instantly	punct
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	23 glided	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 glided	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 glided	cc
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 sound	case
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glided	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shades	punct
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thousand	compound
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 shades	nummod
11	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sound	appos
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 waiting	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waiting	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 waiting	aux
15	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 shades	acl:relcl
16	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 waiting	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 intangible	cc
18	intangible	intangible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 unseen	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 shore	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shore	det
21	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waiting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
23	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	also	also	ADV	_	27 boat	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 boat	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boat	det
27	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glided	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stood	cc
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 glided	conj
30	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stood	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 glided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · perfect · progressive	thousand shades		the shore		unseen property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location
2	glide	past		the boat		then	without sound; instantly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	stand	past					beside Minstrel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 118