The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 42
Gracefully and proudly, like a great swan on some quiet lake, the little vessel glided away from the shore and was soon moving swiftly along the borders of the boundless sea.
Who acts: Gracefully · What happens: glide away, move · To what, where: little vessel, shore, borders
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 (Gracefully), 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 | Gracefully | Gracefully | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 moving | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 proudly | cc |
| 3 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 1 Gracefully | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swan | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 swan | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swan | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 swan | amod |
| 8 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gracefully | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 lake | det |
| 11 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lake | amod |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swan | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vessel | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vessel | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vessel | amod |
| 16 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lake | appos |
| 17 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 vessel | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 glided | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glided | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swan | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 moving | aux |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 moving | advmod |
| 25 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 26 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 25 moving | advmod |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 borders | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 borders | det |
| 29 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 moving | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 32 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 sea | amod |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 borders | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide away | participle | the little vessel not said here | the shore | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | move | past · progressive | Gracefully and a great swan on some quiet lake | the borders of the boundless sea | soon, swiftly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along border=Trajectory |
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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