The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 55
And the Minstrel, standing at the prow of his fairy vessel, shouted words of magic to the winds and waves, while he too prayed for guidance and help.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: stand, shout, pray, word · To what, where: prow, magic
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 (Minstrel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 prayed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minstrel | det |
| 3 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 prayed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Minstrel | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 prow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prow | det |
| 8 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vessel | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vessel | amod |
| 12 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prow | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 words | punct |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prow | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 magic | case |
| 17 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 words | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 winds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 winds | det |
| 20 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 words | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 waves | cc |
| 22 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 winds | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 prayed | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 prayed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 prayed | nsubj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 prayed | advmod |
| 27 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 guidance | case |
| 29 | guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 prayed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 help | cc |
| 31 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 guidance | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | the prow of Minstrel's fairy vessel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at prow=Location | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pray | past | the Minstrel | for guidance and help | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for guidance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | magic | to the winds and waves | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient to=obl |
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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