The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 50
The sea was calm; the waves were sleeping; the winds breathed very softly on the sails of red and blue.
Who acts: sea, waves, winds · What happens: be, sleep, breathe · To what, where: 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 (sea, waves, winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calm | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 calm | cop |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleeping | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waves | det |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sleeping | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleeping | aux |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 calm | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 breathed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winds | det |
| 12 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 breathed | nsubj |
| 13 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 calm | conj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 softly | advmod |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 13 breathed | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 sails | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sails | det |
| 18 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 breathed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 red | case |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sails | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blue | cc |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 red | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past · progressive | the waves | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | breathe | past | the winds | the sails of red | softly property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sail=Destination |
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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