The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 33

All night, all day, the willing little ship speeded southward, cutting through the waves with lightning swiftness, throwing the foam to the right and the left, leaving a track of boiling waters behind it.

What happens: speede, cut, throw, leave · To what, where: willing little ship, foam, right, track, ship

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: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speeded	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
8	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ship	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ship	amod
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speeded	nsubj:pass
11	speeded	speede	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	southward	southward	ADV	_	11 speeded	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cutting	punct
14	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 speeded	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 waves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waves	det
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cutting	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 swiftness	case
19	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swiftness	compound
20	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cutting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 throwing	punct
22	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cutting	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 foam	det
24	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throwing	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 right	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 right	det
27	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throwing	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 left	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 left	det
30	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 right	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 leaving	punct
32	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 throwing	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 track	det
34	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leaving	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 waters	case
36	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 waters	compound
37	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 track	nmod
38	behind	behind	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 leaving	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 speeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speede	participle · passive	the willing little ship		night	southward property	tree rules
2	cut	gerund				with lightning swiftness; through the waves	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through wave=Patient
3	throw	gerund	the foam	the right and the left			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent foam=Theme to right=Destination
4	leave	gerund	a track of boiling waters	ship			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme behind it=Location

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 33