The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 42

“It may be some child who has lost his way and is weeping by the shore.

Who acts: horse, child · What happens: be, lose, weep · To what, where: child, 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 (horse, child), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 child	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 child	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lost	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 child	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 weeping	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weeping	aux
14	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lost	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weeping	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	may	horse	some child		tree rules
2	lose in a quote	present · perfect	some child	child's way		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	weep in a quote	present · progressive	some child not said here		by the shore	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 42