The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 35
It was as if the waves were calling gently, ever so gently, to the little vessel waiting on the shore:
Who acts: song, little vessel · What happens: call, wait · To what, where: little vessel, shore · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (song, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 calling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 calling | aux |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 calling | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 calling | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waves | det |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 calling | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 calling | aux |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 calling | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gently | punct |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 gently | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 gently | advmod |
| 13 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 calling | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vessel | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 vessel | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vessel | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vessel | amod |
| 18 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calling | obl |
| 19 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 vessel | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waiting | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · progressive | song | the little vessel | ever | the waves nsubj; gently property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to vessel=Recipient | ||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the little vessel not said here | the shore | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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