The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 43
Wainamoinen sat down at the stern, and with his long oar guided her northward, never losing sight of the land, never going far from the shore.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: sit down, guide, not lose, not go, sight · To what, where: stern, mast, sight, land
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 (Wainamoinen), 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 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 stern | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stern | det |
| 6 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guided | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guided | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 oar | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 oar | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 oar | amod |
| 12 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guided | obl |
| 13 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 guided | obj |
| 15 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 13 guided | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 losing | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 losing | advmod |
| 18 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 guided | advcl |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 losing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 going | advmod |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 losing | conj |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 going | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 shore | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shore | det |
| 29 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 far | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Wainamoinen | the stern | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at stern=Location | ||||
| 2 | guide | past | Wainamoinen not said here | mast | with Wainamoinen's long oar; northward property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | not lose | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | sight of the land | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not go | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | the land | nom sight «cognition 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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