The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 38
Suddenly, as they were skirting the shore of a small secluded inlet, they heard what seemed to be the moaning of some one in great distress.
Who acts: steeds · What happens: skirt, hear, seem, be · To what, where: shore, moaning · 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 (steeds), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 skirting | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 skirting | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skirting | aux |
| 6 | skirting | skirt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 heard | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skirting | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 inlet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 inlet | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inlet | amod |
| 12 | secluded | secluded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inlet | amod |
| 13 | inlet | inlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shore | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 skirting | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 moaning | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 moaning | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moaning | det |
| 22 | moaning | moaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 moaning | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 distress | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 distress | amod |
| 28 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skirt | past · progressive | steeds = steed | the shore of a small secluded inlet | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | steeds = steed | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | what nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the moaning | of some one in great distress | 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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