The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 20

He walked up and down the river bank, hoping to find some way to cross, but the water was everywhere deep, and the current, although sluggish, was everywhere strong.

Who acts: E, water · What happens: walk up, hope, find, cross, be · To what, where: way

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 (E, water), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bank	cc
5	down	down	ADP	_	8 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	compound
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hoping	punct
10	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 find	mark
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hoping	xcomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 find	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cross	mark
16	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 way	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deep	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 deep	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deep	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 deep	cop
22	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 deep	advmod
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walked	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 current	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 current	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 current	det
27	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deep	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 strong	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	34 strong	mark
30	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 strong	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sluggish	punct
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 strong	cop
33	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 strong	advmod
34	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deep	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk up	past	E		the river bank conj	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hope	gerund	E not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	E not said here	some way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	cross	to-infinitive	E not said here	some way not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the water		the current conj; deep, everywhere property	tree rules
6	is	past	the water not said here		everywhere, strong property	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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 20