The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 43
The Minstrel stood on the deck of his becalmed and motionless ship and looked at her.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: stand, becalm, look · To what, where: deck
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 (Minstrel), 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 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 deck | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deck | det |
| 6 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | becalmed | becalm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ship | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 motionless | cc |
| 11 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 becalmed | conj |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deck | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Minstrel | the deck of Minstrel's becalmed ship | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location | ||||
| 2 | becalm | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | past | the Minstrel not said here | at Tra | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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