The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 47
Swiftly the gray racer flew along the shore; fleetly the boat of magic skimmed over the wrinkled waters.
Who acts: gray racer · What happens: fly, skim, wrinkle · To what, where: shore, boat, wrinkled waters
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 (gray racer), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 racer | det |
| 3 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racer | compound |
| 4 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 boat | punct |
| 10 | fleetly | fleetly | ADV | _ | 12 boat | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 magic | case |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boat | nmod |
| 15 | skimmed | skim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 boat | acl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 waters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 waters | det |
| 18 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 waters | amod |
| 19 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 skimmed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the gray racer | the shore | the boat of magic conj; swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location | |||
| 2 | skim | participle | the boat of magic not said here | the wrinkled waters | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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