The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 61
Luckless was the hour when I embarked on a ship to go fishing; still more luckless was it when a storm overturned the vessel.
Who acts: Luckless, I, storm · What happens: be, embark, go, overturn · To what, where: hour, ship, fishing, vessel
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 (Luckless, I, storm), 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 | Luckless | Luckless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hour | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 embarked | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 embarked | nsubj |
| 7 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hour | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 embarked | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 embarked | advcl |
| 13 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 luckless | punct |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 luckless | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 luckless | advmod |
| 17 | luckless | luckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | parataxis |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 it | cop |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 luckless | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 overturned | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 storm | det |
| 22 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overturned | nsubj |
| 23 | overturned | overturn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 luckless | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 vessel | det |
| 25 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overturned | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Luckless | the hour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embark | past | I | a ship | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | fishing | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | fishing | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | overturn | past | a storm | the vessel | tree rules |
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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