The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 137
By this time the ship was close inshore, but still speeding on its way.
Who acts: ship · What happens: be, speed · To what, where: way
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 (ship), 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 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inshore | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inshore | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 inshore | cop |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inshore | amod |
| 8 | inshore | inshore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speeding | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 speeding | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 speeding | advmod |
| 12 | speeding | speed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 inshore | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speeding | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inshore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ship | time | inshore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speed | gerund | the ship not said here | ship's way | still | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=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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