The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 46
So they rode onward, close to the water-side, listening and looking and drawing nearer and nearer to the place from whence the strange sounds issued.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: ride, listen, look, draw, issue · To what, where: place, strange sounds
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 (eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 water | punct |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listening | punct |
| 13 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looking | cc |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 listening | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drawing | cc |
| 17 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 listening | conj |
| 18 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 drawing | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nearer | cc |
| 20 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 nearer | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawing | obl |
| 24 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 29 issued | mark |
| 25 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 issued | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sounds | det |
| 27 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sounds | amod |
| 28 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 place | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | eyes = eye | close, onward property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | the place | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to place=Destination | |||
| 5 | issue | participle · passive | the strange sounds | whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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