The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 149
Then the hundred rowers took to their oars again and the ship bounded forward into the vast and trackless sea of the North.
Who acts: hundred rowers, ship · What happens: take, bound · To what, where: vast sea
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 (hundred rowers, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rowers | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 rowers | nummod |
| 4 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 oars | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 oars | nmod:poss |
| 8 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bounded | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounded | nsubj |
| 13 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 bounded | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sea | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trackless | cc |
| 19 | trackless | trackless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vast | conj |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bounded | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 North | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 North | det |
| 23 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sea | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the hundred rowers | then; again | to rowers's oars result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to oar=Result | |||
| 2 | bound | past | the ship | the vast sea of the North | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |
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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