The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 71
Then you must launch the boat, using neither arm nor foot to set it floating.
Who acts: you · What happens: launch, use, set, float · To what, where: boat, arm
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | 4 launch | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 launch | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 launch | aux |
| 4 | launch | launch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 launch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 using | punct |
| 8 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 launch | advcl |
| 9 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 arm | det |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 using | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 foot | cc |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arm | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 set | mark |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 using | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 set | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 launch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | must | you | the boat | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | you not said here | neither arm nor foot | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | you not said here | boat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | you 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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