The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 47
Presently, in a little cove, they saw not a child nor a mother bear nor even a dove, but a fine large boat with red hull and scarlet prow, and with oars and rowlocks and everything needed for a lengthy voyage.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: not see, need · To what, where: child, little cove
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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Presently | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cove | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cove | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cove | amod |
| 6 | cove | cove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cove | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 saw | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 bear | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bear | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bear | compound |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 child | conj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 dove | cc |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 dove | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dove | det |
| 20 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bear | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 boat | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 boat | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boat | det |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boat | amod |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boat | amod |
| 26 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 hull | case |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hull | amod |
| 29 | hull | hull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boat | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 prow | cc |
| 31 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prow | compound |
| 32 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hull | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 oars | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 oars | cc |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 oars | case |
| 36 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rowlocks | cc |
| 38 | rowlocks | rowlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 oars | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 everything | cc |
| 40 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 36 oars | conj |
| 41 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 everything | acl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 voyage | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 voyage | det |
| 44 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 voyage | amod |
| 45 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 needed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | eyes = eye | a child nor a mother bear nor a dove | a little cove | with oars everything and rowlocks; a fine large boat with red hull and scarlet prow obl; presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | need | participle | for a lengthy voyage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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