The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 10

Its gilded prow was gleaming in the sunlight; its sails were flapping loosely on the slender mast; and who was the sun-browned hero that stood on the deck guiding the vessel with an oar of copper?

Who acts: gilded prow, sails, browned hero · What happens: gild, gleam, flap, brown, be, stand · To what, where: sunlight, slender mast, browned hero, deck, vessel

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gilded prow, sails, browned hero), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 prow	nmod:poss
2	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 prow	amod
3	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gleaming	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gleaming	aux
5	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sunlight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sunlight	det
8	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gleaming	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 flapping	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sails	nmod:poss
11	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flapping	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flapping	aux
13	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gleaming	conj
14	loosely	loosely	ADV	_	13 flapping	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 mast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mast	det
17	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mast	amod
18	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flapping	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hero	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hero	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hero	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hero	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hero	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 browned	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 sun	punct
26	browned	brown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hero	amod
27	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gleaming	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stood	nsubj
29	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hero	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 deck	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 deck	det
32	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stood	obl
33	guiding	guide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 stood	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 vessel	det
35	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 guiding	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 oar	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 oar	det
38	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 guiding	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 copper	case
40	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 oar	nmod
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gleaming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	gleam	past · progressive	land's gilded prow		the sunlight		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location
3	flap	past · progressive	land's sails		the slender mast	loosely property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mast=Location
4	brown	participle				sun compound	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past		the browned hero		who nsubj	tree rules
6	stand	past	the browned hero		the deck		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location
7	guide	gerund	the browned hero not said here	the vessel		with a oar of copper	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme

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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The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 10