The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 73
Then their long bows stood ready, tight-strung, at the prow of their swift rowboat.
Who acts: long bows · What happens: stand, string · To what, where: prow
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 (long bows), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bows | nmod:poss |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bows | amod |
| 4 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strung | punct |
| 8 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strung | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tight | punct |
| 10 | strung | string | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ready | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 prow | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 prow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prow | det |
| 14 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strung | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rowboat | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rowboat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rowboat | amod |
| 18 | rowboat | rowboat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prow | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Father's long bows | then | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | string | participle | Father's long bows not said here | the prow of Father's swift rowboat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at prow=Destination |
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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