The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 70
It is strong to resist the waves; it has two broad sails that it may fly swiftly before the wind; its prow is of copper overlaid with gold; its deck is floored with silver; in its hold are treasures more precious than I can tell.
Who acts: It, vessel, prow, hold treasures, I · What happens: be, resist, have, fly, overlay, floor · To what, where: waves, two broad sails, wind, copper, deck, hold treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, vessel, prow, hold treasures), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | cop |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 resist | mark |
| 5 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strong | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waves | det |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 resist | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sails | nummod |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sails | amod |
| 13 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 fly | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fly | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fly | aux |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sails | acl |
| 18 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 17 fly | advmod |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fly | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 copper | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 prow | nmod:poss |
| 24 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 copper | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 copper | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 copper | case |
| 27 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strong | conj |
| 28 | overlaid | overlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 copper | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 overlaid | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 floored | punct |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 deck | nmod:poss |
| 33 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 floored | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 floored | aux:pass |
| 35 | floored | floor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 strong | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 silver | case |
| 37 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 floored | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 precious | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 hold | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hold | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 treasures | compound |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 treasures | cop |
| 43 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 precious | nsubj |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 precious | advmod |
| 45 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strong | conj |
| 46 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 49 tell | mark |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 tell | nsubj |
| 48 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 tell | aux |
| 49 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 precious | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resist | to-infinitive | the waves | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | vessel | two broad sails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fly | may | vessel | two broad sails not said here | the wind | swiftly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sail=Theme before wind=Location | ||
| 5 | is | present | vessel's prow | of copper | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | overlay | participle | copper not said here | with gold | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | floor | present · passive | vessel's deck | with silver | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | hold treasures | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | be | hold treasures | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | hold | vessel | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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