The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 31
And now, like a queen clad in her gorgeous robes, the little vessel sat upon the sandy beach and smiled at the morning sun and the rippling waves of the sea.
Who acts: little vessel · What happens: clad, sit, smile, wave · To what, where: queen, gorgeous robes, sandy beach, morning sun, sea
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 (little vessel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sat | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 queen | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 7 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 queen | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 robes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 robes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robes | amod |
| 11 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clad | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 queen | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 beach | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beach | det |
| 19 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beach | amod |
| 20 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 smiled | cc |
| 22 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sat | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 sun | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sun | compound |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smiled | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 waves | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 waves | det |
| 29 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 waves | compound |
| 30 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sun | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 waves | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | participle | a queen not said here | mast's gorgeous robes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the little vessel | the sandy beach | now | like a queen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon beach=Location | ||
| 3 | smile | past | the little vessel not said here | the morning sun and the rippling waves of the sea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wave | the sea | nom wave «event 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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