The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 59
With the courage of despair, Wainamoinen leaped into the dark water and swam with hasty, sturdy strokes toward the shore of safety.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: leap, swim · To what, where: dark water
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 courage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courage | det |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 courage | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 courage | punct |
| 7 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leaped | nsubj |
| 8 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swam | cc |
| 14 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaped | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 strokes | case |
| 16 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strokes | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hasty | punct |
| 18 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strokes | amod |
| 19 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swam | obl |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strokes | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 safety | case |
| 24 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shore | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Wainamoinen | the dark water | with the courage of despair | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | swim | past | Wainamoinen not said here | with hasty sturdy strokes toward the shore of safety | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stroke=Theme |
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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