The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 107
By his hut on that bleak headland which juts farthest into the great icy sea a poor fisherman was sitting.
Who acts: bleak headland, poor fisherman · What happens: jut, sit · To what, where: great icy sea
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 (bleak headland, poor fisherman), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 hut | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hut | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 headland | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 headland | det |
| 6 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 headland | amod |
| 7 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hut | nmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 juts | nsubj |
| 9 | juts | jut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 headland | acl:relcl |
| 10 | farthest | far | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 juts | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 14 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 juts | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fisherman | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fisherman | amod |
| 18 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sitting | aux |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sea | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jut | present | that bleak headland | the great icy sea | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | a poor fisherman | the great icy sea not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/33/107/