The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 52
The ship trembled as it was drawn in, it stopped, it rested in deep water close by the shelving bank.
Who acts: ship · What happens: tremble, draw in, stop, rest · To what, where: ship, deep water
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 (ship), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ship | acl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 drawn | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drawn | aux:pass |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trembled | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 drawn | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ship | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rested | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rested | nsubj |
| 14 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rested | obl |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rested | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 bank | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bank | det |
| 21 | shelving | shelving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bank | compound |
| 22 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 close | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the ship not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw in | past · passive | ship | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | the ship | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | rest | past | ship | deep water | close property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
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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