The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 29
Then the deck was covered with plates of shining silver ornamented with figures of birds and beasts and little fishes.
Who acts: plates · What happens: cover, shine, ornament, figure · To what, where: deck, silver, birds
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 (plates), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 covered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deck | det |
| 3 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 plates | case |
| 7 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 shining | mark |
| 9 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 plates | acl |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shining | obj |
| 11 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 silver | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 figures | case |
| 13 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ornamented | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 birds | case |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 figures | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beasts | cc |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 birds | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fishes | cc |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fishes | amod |
| 20 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 birds | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the deck | then | with plates | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plate=Theme | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | plates not said here | silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ornament | participle | silver not said here | with figures of birds and beasts and little fishes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with figure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | figure | birds and beasts and little fishes | nom figure «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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