The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 102
The hero Ilmarinen shouted to the ship, to the sea, to the hundred rowers; and the ship, the sea, and the rowers answered him in tones of gladness.
Who acts: hero, ship, rowers · What happens: shout, sea, answer, intonate · To what, where: ship, Ilmarinen, tones, gladness
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 (hero, ship, rowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hero | appos |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rowers | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 rowers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rowers | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 rowers | nummod |
| 16 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sea | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 sea | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sea | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sea | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sea | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouted | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 answered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 answered | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rowers | det |
| 27 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 answered | nsubj |
| 28 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouted | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 answered | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tones | case |
| 31 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 answered | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 gladness | case |
| 33 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tones | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the hero | the ship | the sea and the hundred rowers parataxis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ship=Recipient | |||
| 2 | sea | the ship | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the rowers | Ilmarinen | tones of gladness | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | intonate | gladness | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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