The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 1
Northward, northward, along the low-lying seashore, Ilmarinen pursued his course, never pausing, never faltering.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: lie, pursue, not pause, not falter · To what, where: course, lying seashore
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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 | Northward | northward | ADV | _ | 3 northward | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Northward | punct |
| 3 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 13 pursued | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 northward | punct |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 seashore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seashore | det |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lying | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 low | punct |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seashore | amod |
| 10 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pursued | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seashore | punct |
| 12 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pursued | nsubj |
| 13 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 course | nmod:poss |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pursued | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pausing | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 pausing | advmod |
| 18 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 pursued | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 faltering | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 faltering | advmod |
| 21 | faltering | falter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 pausing | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pursue | past | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's course | the lying seashore | northward property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent course=Theme along seashore=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | not pause | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not falter | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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