The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 100
Instantly the prow of copper began to sing and the waves parted to make a path for the speeding vessel.
Who acts: prow, waves · What happens: begin, sing, part, make · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prow, waves), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 6 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prow | det |
| 3 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 copper | case |
| 5 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prow | nmod |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sing | mark |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 parted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waves | det |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 parted | nsubj |
| 12 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 parted | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 vessel | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vessel | det |
| 19 | speeding | speeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vessel | compound |
| 20 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 path | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the prow of copper | instantly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the prow of copper not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | part | past | the waves | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the waves not said here | a path | for the speeding vessel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent path=Product for vessel=Asset |
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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