The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 21
The hull was bare and unadorned, the copper prow was rough and unshapely, the deck was uneven and uninviting.
Who acts: hull, copper prow, deck · What happens: be, uninvit
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 (hull, copper prow, deck), 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 hull | det |
| 2 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bare | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bare | cop |
| 4 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unadorned | cc |
| 6 | unadorned | unadorned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bare | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rough | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prow | det |
| 9 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prow | compound |
| 10 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rough | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rough | cop |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bare | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 unshapely | cc |
| 14 | unshapely | unshapely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rough | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 uneven | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deck | det |
| 17 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 uneven | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 uneven | cop |
| 19 | uneven | uneven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bare | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 uninviting | cc |
| 21 | uninviting | uninvit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 uneven | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hull | bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the hull not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the copper prow | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the copper prow not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | the deck | uneven property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | uninvit | gerund | the deck 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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