The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 62
Nine days did the sea toss me—yes, ten days did the waves buffet me—ere I was cast upon these shores.”
Who acts: Nine days, ten days, waves · What happens: toss, do, buffet, cast · To what, where: me, I, shores
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 (Nine days, ten days, waves), 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 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 toss | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 toss | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 toss | nsubj |
| 6 | toss | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 toss | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 toss | punct |
| 9 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 did | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 yes | punct |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 buffet | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waves | det |
| 15 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buffet | nsubj |
| 16 | buffet | buffet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 toss | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 buffet | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 cast | punct |
| 19 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 22 cast | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 cast | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cast | aux:pass |
| 22 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 toss | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 shores | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 shores | det |
| 25 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cast | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 toss | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 toss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past · do-support | Nine days | me | the sea nsubj | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | ten days | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | buffet | present | the waves | me | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination | ||||
| 4 | cast | past · passive | I | this shores | ere property | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon shore=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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