The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 11
He looked on that side—the shallow water, the narrow bar, and beyond it the great northern sea and the winding shore which marked the way to the Frozen Land.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, winding shore · What happens: look, mark · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen, winding shore), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 side | det |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 water | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 side | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bar | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bar | det |
| 12 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bar | amod |
| 13 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sea | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sea | cc |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sea | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sea | amod |
| 20 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sea | amod |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shore | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 24 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shore | compound |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | conj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 marked | nsubj |
| 27 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 shore | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 way | det |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marked | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Land | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Land | det |
| 32 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Land | compound |
| 33 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 way | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Wainamoinen | on that side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | the winding shore | the way | to the Frozen Land | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent way=Theme to land=Attribute |
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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