The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 138
Then the rowers rested on their oars, and it was easy to understand all that was being said whether on the ship or on the shore.
Who acts: rowers · What happens: rest, be, understand, say · To what, where: oars, that · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rowers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rested | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rowers | det |
| 3 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rested | nsubj |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 oars | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 oars | nmod:poss |
| 7 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rested | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 easy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 easy | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 easy | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 easy | cop |
| 12 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rested | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 understand | mark |
| 14 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 easy | csubj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 said | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 said | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | aux:pass |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 understand | ccomp |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 ship | mark |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ship | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ship | det |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 shore | cc |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 shore | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ship | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the rowers | rowers's oars | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on oar=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the rowers not said here | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | that | the ship or the shore ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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