The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 54
Then with steady arms and mighty strokes she rowed homeward, nor did she pause until the boat’s keel grated on the beach before her door.
Who acts: face · What happens: row, pause, grate · To what, where: homeward, keel
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 (face), 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 | 9 rowed | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 arms | case |
| 3 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arms | amod |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rowed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strokes | cc |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strokes | amod |
| 7 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arms | conj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rowed | nsubj |
| 9 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rowed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pause | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 pause | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pause | aux |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pause | nsubj |
| 15 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rowed | conj |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 keel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boat | det |
| 18 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keel | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 boat | case |
| 20 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pause | obl |
| 21 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 keel | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 beach | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beach | det |
| 24 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grated | obl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 door | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 door | nmod:poss |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | face | homeward | then | with steady arms and mighty strokes | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme | ||
| 2 | pause | past · do-support | face | until the boat's keel | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grate | participle | the boat's keel not said here | before face's door | on the beach | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus on beach=Experiencer |
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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