The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 105
The slender mast croaked to the wind like a raven croaking to its mate.
Who acts: raven · What happens: croak · To what, where: slender mast, wind, mate
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 (raven), 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 | 3 mast | det |
| 2 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mast | amod |
| 3 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | croaked | croak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mast | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 croaked | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 raven | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 raven | det |
| 10 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wind | nmod |
| 11 | croaking | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 raven | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 mate | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mate | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 croaking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | participle | the slender mast not said here | the wind like a raven | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | croak | gerund | a raven not said here | raven's mate | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mate=Recipient |
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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