The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 112
Or was it some beast of the shore wandering along the desolate beach and howling from hunger and loneliness?
Who acts: spray, shore · What happens: be, wonder, desolate, howl · To what, where: beast, hunger
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 (spray, shore), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 beast | cc |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beast | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beast | nsubj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 beast | det |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beast | nmod |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 shore | acl |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 beach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beach | det |
| 12 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beach | compound |
| 13 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandering | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 howling | cc |
| 15 | howling | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wandering | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 hunger | case |
| 17 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 howling | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 loneliness | cc |
| 19 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunger | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 beast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | spray | some beast | of the shore | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the shore not said here | along the desolate beach | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | howl | gerund | the shore not said here | hunger and loneliness | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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