The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 56
Their boat was a plain one—no golden prow nor silver-plated deck nor rainbow-colored sail.
Who acts: boat, golden prow · What happens: be, plate, color · To what, where: plain one, sail
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 (boat, golden prow), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 boat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 prow | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 prow | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prow | amod |
| 10 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | appos |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 silver | cc |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prow | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 silver | punct |
| 14 | plated | plate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 deck | amod |
| 15 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prow | conj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 rainbow | cc |
| 17 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prow | conj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 rainbow | punct |
| 19 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 prow | acl |
| 20 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 colored | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Father's boat | a plain one | no golden prow nor silver and plated deck nor rainbow appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plate | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | color | participle | no golden prow nor silver and plated deck nor rainbow not said here | sail | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient |
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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