The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 12
Then quickly he seized his other oar, and thrust it out over the gunwales.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: seize out · To what, where: other oar, gunwales
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 seized | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 oar | nmod:poss |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oar | amod |
| 7 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thrust | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thrust | cc |
| 10 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 seized | compound:prt |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 gunwales | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gunwales | det |
| 15 | gunwales | gunwale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize out | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's other oar | the gunwales | then | thrust obl; oar obj; quickly property | tree rules |
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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