The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 5
For five days—yes, for six toilsome days—they had sailed hither and thither, casting first on the landward side and then on the seaward, and still the boat’s hold was far from being filled.
Who acts: fishermen · What happens: sail, cast, fill, hold · To what, where: six toilsome days, landward side, hold, boat
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 (fishermen), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 days | obl |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 5 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 days | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 days | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 9 | toilsome | toilsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sailed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sailed | aux |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 days | acl:relcl |
| 15 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 14 sailed | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thither | cc |
| 17 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 15 hither | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 casting | punct |
| 19 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sailed | advcl |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 casting | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | landward | landward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 casting | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 seaward | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 seaward | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 seaward | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 seaward | det |
| 29 | seaward | seaward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 filled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 filled | cc |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 hold | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 boat | det |
| 34 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hold | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 boat | case |
| 36 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 filled | obl |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 filled | aux:pass |
| 38 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 filled | advmod |
| 39 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 41 filled | mark |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 filled | aux:pass |
| 41 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sailed | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past · perfect | fishermen = fisherman | six toilsome days for five days not said here | thither | hither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | cast | gerund | fishermen = fisherman not said here | the landward side and the seaward | first property | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on side=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | fishermen = fisherman not said here | the boat's hold | far property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||
| 5 | hold | the boat | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=patient |
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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