The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 108
He was mending his net and weeping because the fishes were so few.
Who acts: fisherman, fishes · What happens: mend, be · To what, where: net
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 (fisherman, fishes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mending | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mending | aux |
| 3 | mending | mend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 net | nmod:poss |
| 5 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mending | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 weeping | cc |
| 7 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 net | conj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 few | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fishes | det |
| 10 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 few | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 few | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 few | advmod |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mending | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend | past · progressive | fisherman | fisherman's net and weeping | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the fishes | few property | tree rules |
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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