The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 24
“Never will I sail in your enchanted vessel,” answered the Smith half angrily, and he rose in his sledge and shook the furry robes from his shoulders.
Who acts: Smith half, Wainola · What happens: not sail, enchant, answer, rise, shake · To what, where: enchanted vessel, sledge, furry robes, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Smith half, Wainola), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 sail | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sail | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sail | nsubj |
| 5 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vessel | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 8 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 vessel | amod |
| 9 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sail | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 half | det |
| 14 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 half | compound |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 answered | obj |
| 16 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rose | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rose | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sledge | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shook | cc |
| 25 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rose | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 robes | det |
| 27 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 robes | amod |
| 28 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shook | obj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 shoulders | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 31 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shook | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sail in a quote | future | the Smith half = half | your enchanted vessel | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enchant in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Smith half | angrily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | Wainola | Wainola's sledge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sledge=Location | ||||
| 5 | shake | past | Wainola not said here | the furry robes | Wainola's shoulders | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent robe=Theme from shoulder=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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