The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 58
The decks were littered with poles and lines and fishing spears.
What happens: litter · To what, where: decks
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: 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 decks | det |
| 2 | decks | deck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 littered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 littered | aux:pass |
| 4 | littered | litter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 poles | case |
| 6 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 littered | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lines | cc |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poles | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spears | cc |
| 10 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spears | compound |
| 11 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poles | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 littered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | litter | past · passive | the decks | with poles and lines and fishing spears | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with pole=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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