The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 9
Not far from the land they saw the strange boat gliding.
Who acts: meadows, strange boat · What happens: see, glide · To what, where: strange boat, land
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 (meadows, strange boat), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boat | amod |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | gliding | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 boat | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | meadows = meadow | the strange boat | the land | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | glide | gerund | the strange boat not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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