The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 49
Skilfully, with his oar of copper, the Minstrel guided it straight towards the place of landing.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: guide · To what, where: copper, place
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 (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 | Skilfully | skilfully | ADV | _ | 11 guided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Skilfully | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 oar | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 oar | nmod:poss |
| 5 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guided | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 copper | case |
| 7 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oar | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oar | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 guided | nsubj |
| 11 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 guided | obj |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 place | advmod |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guided | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 landing | case |
| 18 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past | the Minstrel | copper | the place of landing | with man's oar of copper; skilfully property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards place=Destination |
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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