The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 7
Then one day a little boat came creeping into the harbor with but one man on board.
Who acts: little boat · What happens: come, creep · To what, where: harbor
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boat), 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 | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boat | amod |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 came | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 harbor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harbor | det |
| 11 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creeping | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 man | nummod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creeping | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 board | case |
| 17 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a little boat | then; day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | a little boat not said here | the harbor | with one man on board | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into harbor=Destination |
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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