The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 8

So near was her dwelling to the sea that she could hear the waves lapping on the beach and the ice-floes crunching and grinding and pounding against the shore.

Who acts: Dame, waves, ice floes · What happens: dwell, hear, lap, crunch, grind, pound · To what, where: waves, shore

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 (Dame, waves, ice floes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 near	advmod
2	near	near	ADV	_	5 dwelling	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dwelling	aux
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dwelling	nsubj
5	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dwelling	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hear	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dwelling	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 waves	det
14	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	obj
15	lapping	lap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 waves	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 beach	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beach	det
18	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lapping	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 floes	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floes	det
21	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 floes	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ice	punct
23	floes	floe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beach	conj
24	crunching	crunch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 floes	acl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grinding	cc
26	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 crunching	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pounding	cc
28	pounding	pound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 crunching	conj
29	against	against	ADP	_	31 shore	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shore	det
31	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pounding	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dwelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past · progressive	Dame			to the sea; near property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	could	Dame	the waves			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wave=Stimulus
3	lap	gerund	the waves not said here			on the beach and the ice floes	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on beach=Patient
4	crunch	gerund	the ice floes not said here				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
5	grind	gerund	the ice floes not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	pound	gerund	the ice floes not said here		the shore		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent against shore=Trajectory

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 8