The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 123
The vessel drew nearer, she was in plain sight, she loomed up large upon the waters.
Who acts: vessel, Maiden · What happens: draw, be, loom up · To what, where: plain sight
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 (vessel, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sight | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sight | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sight | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sight | amod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loomed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loomed | nsubj |
| 13 | loomed | loom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 loomed | compound:prt |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loomed | xcomp |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 waters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 waters | det |
| 18 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 large | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the vessel | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Maiden | plain sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | loom up | past | Maiden | large property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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