The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 41
He now lifted the mast in its place; he hoisted the sails—one red and one blue—and spread them to the winds.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: lift, hoist, spread · To what, where: mast, place, sails
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mast | det |
| 5 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hoisted | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hoisted | nsubj |
| 11 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sails | det |
| 13 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hoisted | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 red | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 red | nummod |
| 16 | red | red | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hoisted | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blue | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 blue | nummod |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 red | conj |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spread | cc |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spread | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 winds | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 winds | det |
| 26 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spread | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Minstrel | the mast | deck's place | now | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mast=Theme in place=Destination | ||
| 2 | hoist | past | Minstrel | the sails | one red advcl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme | |||
| 3 | spread | past | Minstrel not said here | sails = sail | to the winds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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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