The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 2

Close on the starboard side appeared the headland of Wainola; directly in front lay the bar, a long, narrow, pebbly beach, jutting far out into the deep sea.

Who acts: you, starboard side · What happens: close, appear, lie, jut · To what, where: headland, bar, front, deep sea

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 (you, starboard side), 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	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 appeared	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 side	det
4	starboard	starboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	compound
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 headland	det
8	headland	headland	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Wainola	case
10	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 headland	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	15 lay	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obl
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bar	det
17	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beach	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 beach	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beach	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
22	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beach	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 narrow	punct
24	pebbly	pebbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beach	amod
25	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bar	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 jutting	punct
27	jutting	jut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lay	advcl
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 out	advmod
29	out	out	ADV	_	27 jutting	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
32	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sea	amod
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 jutting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	appear	past	the starboard side	the headland of Wainola			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location headland=Theme
3	lie	past	the starboard side not said here	the bar	front	directly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bar=Theme
4	jut	gerund	the starboard side not said here		the deep sea	out property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 2