The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 44
As the magic boat speeded onward, cutting the waves with its gilded prow and dashing the white spray to left and right, the Minstrel’s heart glowed with joy and pride.
Who acts: heart · What happens: speede, cut, gild, dash, glow · To what, where: magic boat, waves, white spray
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 (heart), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 boat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boat | amod |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glowed | obl |
| 5 | speeded | speede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boat | acl |
| 6 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 5 speeded | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cutting | punct |
| 8 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 speeded | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waves | det |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cutting | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 prow | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 prow | amod |
| 14 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cutting | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dashing | cc |
| 16 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cutting | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spray | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spray | amod |
| 19 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dashing | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 left | case |
| 21 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dashing | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 right | cc |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 left | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boat | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Minstrel | det |
| 26 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Minstrel | case |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glowed | nsubj |
| 29 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 joy | case |
| 31 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glowed | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pride | cc |
| 33 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 joy | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speede | participle | the magic boat not said here | onward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | the waves | with boat's gilded prow | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient with prow=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dash | gerund | the white spray | to left result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spray=Patient to left=Result | ||||
| 5 | glow | participle | the Minstrel's heart | as the magic boat; with joy and pride | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=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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