The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 19
Their net was broken, they lost their best whalebone hook, their boat was grounded in the shallows, and half the day was wasted.
Who acts: cargo · What happens: break, lose, ground, waste · To what, where: net, best whalebone hook, boat, shallows
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cargo), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 net | nmod:poss |
| 2 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hook | nmod:poss |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 hook | amod |
| 10 | whalebone | whalebone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hook | compound |
| 11 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grounded | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grounded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grounded | aux:pass |
| 16 | grounded | ground | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broken | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 shallows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shallows | det |
| 19 | shallows | shallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grounded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wasted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wasted | cc |
| 22 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 24 day | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wasted | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wasted | aux:pass |
| 26 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broken | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | cargo's net | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | cargo | cargo's best whalebone hook | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ground | past · passive | cargo's boat | the shallows | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shallow=Destination | ||||
| 4 | waste | past · passive | day | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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