The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 157
The waves of the sea rippled with joy upon the sands, and the very stars in the sky twinkled and danced as the enchanted sledge glided like a swift meteor toward the frozen North Country.
Who acts: waves, stars · What happens: ripple, twinkle, dance, enchant, glide, freeze · To what, where: sands, enchanted sledge, sea
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waves, stars), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 waves | det |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rippled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waves | nmod |
| 6 | rippled | ripple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rippled | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 sands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sands | det |
| 11 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rippled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 twinkled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twinkled | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stars | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 stars | advmod |
| 16 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 twinkled | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stars | nmod |
| 20 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rippled | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 danced | cc |
| 22 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 twinkled | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 sledge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sledge | det |
| 25 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sledge | amod |
| 26 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 danced | obl |
| 27 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sledge | acl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 meteor | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 meteor | det |
| 30 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 meteor | amod |
| 31 | meteor | meteor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glided | obl |
| 32 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 36 Country | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Country | det |
| 34 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 Country | amod |
| 35 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Country | compound |
| 36 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 meteor | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rippled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripple | past | the waves of the sea | the sands | with joy | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sand=Location | |||
| 2 | twinkle | past | the stars in the sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | the stars in the sky not said here | as the enchanted sledge | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | glide | participle | the enchanted sledge not said here | like a swift meteor toward the frozen North Country | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | wave | the sea | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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