The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 70
Then, swifter than the wind, she sailed straight onward, towards the mystic island and the dark and dismal river.
Who acts: swifter · What happens: sail · To what, where: mystic island
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swifter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | swifter | swifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swifter | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailed | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sailed | nsubj |
| 9 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 onward | advmod |
| 11 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 9 sailed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 island | punct |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 15 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 island | amod |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 river | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 river | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dismal | cc |
| 21 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dark | conj |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 island | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | swifter than the wind | the mystic island and the dark river | then | onward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards island=Trajectory |
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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