The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 28
First, the prow was overlaid with sunbright gold and its forward part was beautifully carved and shaped into the form of a swan with outspread wings.
What happens: overlay, carve, shape, form · To what, where: prow, forward part, form, swan
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: 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 overlaid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prow | det |
| 4 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overlaid | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overlaid | aux:pass |
| 6 | overlaid | overlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 8 | sunbright | sunbright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | compound |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overlaid | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carved | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 part | nmod:poss |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 part | amod |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carved | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carved | aux:pass |
| 15 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 16 carved | advmod |
| 16 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 overlaid | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shaped | cc |
| 18 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 carved | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 form | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 form | det |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 swan | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 swan | det |
| 24 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 form | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 wings | case |
| 26 | outspread | outspread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wings | amod |
| 27 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 swan | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overlaid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overlay | past · passive | the prow | with sunbright gold; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carve | past · passive | prow's forward part | beautifully property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shape | participle | the form of a swan with outspread wings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into form=Product | |||||
| 4 | form | a swan with outspread wings | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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