The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 6
Quite close to the shore, so close that Ilmarinen might have thrown a stone upon its deck, a little ship was becalmed in the smooth waters.
What happens: throw, becalm · To what, where: Ilmarinen, little ship, smooth 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: 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 close | advmod |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 close | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 close | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 close | advmod |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 close | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 thrown | mark |
| 10 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 thrown | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thrown | aux |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 close | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 deck | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 deck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 becalmed | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ship | amod |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 becalmed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 becalmed | aux:pass |
| 24 | becalmed | becalm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 thrown | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 waters | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 waters | det |
| 27 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 waters | amod |
| 28 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 becalmed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | might · perfect · passive | Ilmarinen | upon stone's deck; a stone obj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | becalm | past · passive | a little ship | the smooth waters | 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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