The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 38
As the boat neared the shore he shouted a great sky-shaking shout as was his custom when arriving home from a long voyage.
Who acts: shore · What happens: near, shout, shake, be, arrive · To what, where: great shaking shout, long voyage
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 (shore), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 boat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neared | obl |
| 4 | neared | near | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouted | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shouted | nsubj |
| 8 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 neared | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shout | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shout | amod |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaking | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sky | punct |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 shout | amod |
| 14 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouted | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 custom | case |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 custom | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 custom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouted | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 arriving | advmod |
| 20 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shouted | advcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 arriving | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 voyage | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voyage | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voyage | amod |
| 25 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arriving | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 neared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | past | as the boat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the shore | a great shaking shout | wiser = wise nsubj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Topic | |||
| 3 | shake | gerund | sky compound | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | as wiser's custom; wiser = wise nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | arrive | gerund | the shore not said here | a long voyage | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from voyage=Initial_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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