The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 36
They rode along the pathway which each had travelled once before, the pathway which followed the windings of the coast; for this they judged was the safest way.
Who acts: steeds, pathway · What happens: ride, travell, follow, judge, be · To what, where: pathway, windings, safest 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 (steeds, pathway), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 pathway | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pathway | det |
| 5 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 travelled | nsubj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 travelled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 travelled | aux |
| 9 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pathway | acl:relcl |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 before | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 travelled | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pathway | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pathway | det |
| 14 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travelled | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pathway | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 windings | det |
| 18 | windings | winding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 followed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 coast | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coast | det |
| 21 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 windings | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 judged | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 this | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 judged | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 judged | nsubj |
| 26 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 way | advcl |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 way | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | steeds = steed | the pathway | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along pathway=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | travell | past · perfect · passive | the pathway | the pathway obl; before property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the pathway | the windings of the coast | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winding=Theme | ||||
| 4 | judge | past | steeds = steed | for this | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for this=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the safest way | tree rules |
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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