The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 3
Then he thought of his neglected boat, lying high upon the shore and waiting for the finishing touches which he was now prepared to give.
Who acts: Minstrel, finishing · What happens: think, neglect, lie, wait, touch, prepare · To what, where: shore
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 (Minstrel, finishing), 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 | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 boat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 boat | amod |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | conj |
| 10 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 lying | advmod |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waiting | cc |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lying | conj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 touches | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 finishing | det |
| 18 | finishing | finishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touches | nsubj |
| 19 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 waiting | advcl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prepared | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prepared | aux:pass |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 prepared | advmod |
| 24 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 touches | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 prepared | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Minstrel | then | of Minstrel's neglected boat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | neglect | participle | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Minstrel not said here | the shore | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shore=Location | |||
| 4 | wait | gerund | Minstrel not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | touch | present | the finishing | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | prepare | past · passive | now | which nsubj:pass; Minstrel nsubj | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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