The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 122
It was a red ship speeding onward, and the rainbow was the spray that she dashed from her cleaving prow.
Who acts: rainbow, red ship, Maiden · What happens: be, speed, dash · To what, where: red ship, spray, cleaving prow
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 (rainbow, red ship, Maiden), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ship | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ship | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ship | amod |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | speeding | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ship | acl |
| 7 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 6 speeding | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spray | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spray | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rainbow | det |
| 11 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spray | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spray | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spray | det |
| 14 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ship | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dashed | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dashed | nsubj |
| 17 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spray | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 prow | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cleaving | cleaving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prow | compound |
| 21 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dashed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | rainbow | a red ship and the spray | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speed | gerund | a red ship and the spray not said here | onward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the rainbow | the spray | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dash | past | Maiden | Maiden's cleaving prow | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from prow=Trajectory |
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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