The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 5
The sails hung useless from the mast; not a breath of air was stirring; scarcely a ripple could be seen on the face of the sea.
Who acts: sails, breath · What happens: hang, stir, see · To what, where: mast, ripple, face
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 (sails, breath), 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 sails | det |
| 2 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hung | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mast | det |
| 7 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stirring | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 breath | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 breath | det |
| 11 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stirring | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breath | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stirring | aux |
| 15 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hung | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 17 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ripple | det |
| 19 | ripple | ripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hung | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 face | det |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 face | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the sails | the mast | useless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stir | past · progressive | a breath of air | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | could · passive | a ripple | the face of the sea | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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