The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 47
The cries grew louder, the calls were more frequent as she urged her boat forward over the sullen, icy-cold waves.
Who acts: cries, calls, sun · What happens: grow, be, urge · To what, where: boat, sullen cold waves
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, calls, sun), 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 cries | det |
| 2 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 frequent | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 calls | det |
| 7 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 frequent | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frequent | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 frequent | advmod |
| 10 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 urged | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 urged | nsubj |
| 13 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frequent | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 boat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 urged | obj |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 urged | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 waves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 waves | det |
| 19 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 waves | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sullen | punct |
| 21 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cold | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 icy | punct |
| 23 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 waves | amod |
| 24 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 urged | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the cries | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the calls | frequent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | urge | past | sun | sun's boat | the sullen cold waves | forward property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Recipient |
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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