The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 46
It is she that has lulled the South Wind to sleep and halted my voyage at its very beginning.
Who acts: South Wind, my, more · What happens: be, sleep, halt, voyage, begin · To what, where: more, voyage, beginning
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 (South Wind, my, more), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lulled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lulled | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lulled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lulled | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lulled | aux |
| 6 | lulled | lull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wind | det |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Wind | compound |
| 9 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lulled | obl:agent |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Wind | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 halted | cc |
| 13 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lulled | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 halted | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 beginning | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 beginning | nmod:poss |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 beginning | advmod |
| 19 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 halted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect · passive | the South Wind | more | Tra nsubj:pass; that nsubj; lull property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the South Wind not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | halt | past | the South Wind not said here | my voyage | at more's beginning | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector voyage=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | voyage | my | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | begin | more | nom beginning «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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