The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 85
He went in a large ship which required a hundred men to row it.
Who acts: dog, large ship · What happens: go, require, row · To what, where: large ship, hundred men, ship
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 (dog, large ship), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ship | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ship | amod |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 required | nsubj |
| 8 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ship | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 required | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 row | mark |
| 13 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 required | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 row | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dog | a large ship | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location | ||||
| 2 | require | past | a large ship | hundred men | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | row | to-infinitive | a large ship not said here | ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |
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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