The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 50
Gently, smoothly, like a mother swan swimming among her cygnets in some sheltered cove, the vessel glided into the quiet inlet.
Who acts: mother swan, vessel · What happens: swim, shelter, glide · To what, where: cygnets, quiet inlet
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 (mother swan, vessel), 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 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 smoothly | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gently | punct |
| 3 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 20 glided | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smoothly | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 swan | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swan | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swan | compound |
| 8 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glided | obl |
| 9 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 swan | acl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 cygnets | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cygnets | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cygnets | cygnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swimming | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cove | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 cove | det |
| 15 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cove | amod |
| 16 | cove | cove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cygnets | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swan | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vessel | det |
| 19 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glided | nsubj |
| 20 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 inlet | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 inlet | det |
| 23 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 inlet | amod |
| 24 | inlet | inlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glided | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | gerund | a mother swan not said here | girl's cygnets in some sheltered cove | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cygnet=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | glide | past | the vessel | the quiet inlet | like a mother swan; smoothly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into inlet=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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