The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 8
Many of the people saw the lone sailor as he moored his vessel to the shore, but none had the courage to go and meet him.
Who acts: Many people, cattle, none · What happens: see, moor, have, go, meet · To what, where: lone sailor, vessel, courage, cattle
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 (Many people, cattle, none), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sailor | det |
| 7 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sailor | amod |
| 8 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 moored | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 moored | nsubj |
| 11 | moored | moor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 13 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moored | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moored | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 courage | det |
| 22 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 courage | acl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 meet | cc |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 meet | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Many people | the lone sailor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sailor=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | moor | past | cattle | cattle's vessel | to the shore | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient to shore=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | have | past | none | the courage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | none not said here | the courage not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | meet | infinitive | none not said here | cattle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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