The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 87
Their shields hung all round the hull of the mighty vessel and a black dragon floated from the masthead.
Who acts: shields · What happens: hang, float · To what, where: hull, black dragon, masthead
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 (shields), 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 shields | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 hung | advmod |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 hull | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hull | det |
| 7 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vessel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vessel | amod |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hull | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dragon | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dragon | amod |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vessel | conj |
| 16 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 dragon | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 masthead | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 masthead | det |
| 19 | masthead | masthead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | men's shields | the hull of the mighty vessel and a black dragon | all property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round hull=Destination | |||
| 2 | float | participle | a black dragon not said here | the masthead | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from masthead=Trajectory |
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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