The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 19
Three times he pronounced them, and immediately the three holes were bored, the three bolts were fitted therein, and the three last planks were fastened in their proper places: the hull was finished, the boat was water-tight and seaworthy.
Who acts: sea, three holes, boat · What happens: pronounce, be, fit, fasten, finish · To what, where: words, three bolts, three last planks, proper places, hull
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, three holes, boat), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pronounced | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pronounced | nsubj |
| 4 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pronounced | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bored | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bored | cc |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 bored | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 holes | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 holes | nummod |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bored | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bored | cop |
| 13 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pronounced | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fitted | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bolts | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 bolts | nummod |
| 17 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fitted | aux:pass |
| 19 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bored | conj |
| 20 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 19 fitted | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fastened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fastened | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 planks | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 planks | nummod |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 planks | amod |
| 26 | planks | plank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fastened | aux:pass |
| 28 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pronounced | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 places | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 places | nmod:poss |
| 31 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 places | amod |
| 32 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fastened | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 finished | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hull | det |
| 35 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 finished | aux:pass |
| 37 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pronounced | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 tight | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boat | det |
| 40 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tight | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 tight | cop |
| 42 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tight | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 water | punct |
| 44 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 finished | parataxis |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 seaworthy | cc |
| 46 | seaworthy | seaworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 tight | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past | sea | words = word | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the three holes | bored, immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fit | past · passive | the three bolts | therein property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past · passive | the three last planks | words's proper places | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | finish | past · passive | the hull | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the boat | tight property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | the boat 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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