The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 49
The white waves danced and trembled in the wake of Wainamoinen’s gold-beaked vessel.
What happens: dance, tremble, beak · To what, where: white waves, wake
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: 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 | 3 waves | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waves | amod |
| 3 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trembled | cc |
| 6 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 danced | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wake | det |
| 9 | wake | wake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trembled | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 vessel | case |
| 11 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Wainamoinen | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beaked | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 gold | punct |
| 15 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 vessel | amod |
| 16 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wake | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle · passive | the white waves | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tremble | participle | the wake of Wainamoinen's beaked vessel | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wake=Location | |||||
| 3 | beak | participle | gold compound | tree rules |
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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