The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 30
Finally, the broad, well-shaped hull and the gunwales, fore and aft, were painted in bright colors—blue and yellow and scarlet—and the slender mast was coated with snow-white enamel.
What happens: shape, paint, coat · To what, where: bright colors, slender mast
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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 broad | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 broad | det |
| 4 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 painted | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hull | punct |
| 6 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 hull | discourse |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hull | amod |
| 9 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broad | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gunwales | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gunwales | det |
| 12 | gunwales | gunwale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hull | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fore | punct |
| 14 | fore | fore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gunwales | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 aft | cc |
| 16 | aft | aft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fore | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hull | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 painted | aux:pass |
| 19 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 colors | case |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 colors | amod |
| 22 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 painted | obl |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 blue | punct |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 colors | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 yellow | cc |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blue | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 scarlet | cc |
| 28 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blue | conj |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 painted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 coated | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mast | det |
| 32 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mast | amod |
| 33 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 coated | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 coated | aux:pass |
| 35 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 painted | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 enamel | case |
| 37 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 enamel | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 snow | punct |
| 39 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 enamel | amod |
| 40 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 coated | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | paint | past · passive | bright colors | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: in color=Destination | |||||
| 3 | coat | past · passive | the slender mast | with snow white enamel | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with enamel=Theme |
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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