The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 49
He was not fighting the waves as she had supposed, but was clinging to the branches of a tree that had been uprooted and carried to sea.
Who acts: cock · What happens: not fight, suppose, cling, uproot, carry · To what, where: waves, sun, tree, sea
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 (cock), 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 | 4 fighting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fighting | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fighting | advmod |
| 4 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waves | det |
| 6 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fighting | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 supposed | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 supposed | aux |
| 10 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fighting | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clinging | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 clinging | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clinging | aux |
| 14 | clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fighting | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 branches | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 branches | det |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clinging | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 branches | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 uprooted | obj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 uprooted | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 uprooted | aux:pass |
| 24 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tree | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 carried | cc |
| 26 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 uprooted | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight | past · progressive | cock | the waves | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | suppose | past · perfect · passive | sun | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | cling | past · progressive | cock not said here | to the branches of a tree | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to branch=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | uproot | past · perfect · passive | a tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry | participle | sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to sea=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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