The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 48
As the wavelets rippled against the sides of the pretty vessel and caused its keel to grate upon the sandy beach, it gave forth groans and lamentations like the cries of some living creature suffering from sorrow or pain.
Who acts: wavelets, keel, living creature suffering · What happens: ripple, cause, grate, give, live, cry · To what, where: sides, keel, groans
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 (wavelets, keel, living creature suffering), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 wavelets | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wavelets | det |
| 3 | wavelets | wavelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rippled | nsubj |
| 4 | rippled | ripple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sides | det |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rippled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vessel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vessel | amod |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sides | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caused | cc |
| 13 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rippled | conj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 keel | nmod:poss |
| 15 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caused | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grate | mark |
| 17 | grate | grate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 caused | xcomp |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 beach | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beach | det |
| 20 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beach | amod |
| 21 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grate | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rippled | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 gave | advmod |
| 26 | groans | groan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lamentations | cc |
| 28 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 groans | conj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 cries | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cries | det |
| 31 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 groans | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 suffering | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 suffering | nsubj |
| 34 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 suffering | amod |
| 35 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suffering | compound |
| 36 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cries | nmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 sorrow | case |
| 38 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suffering | nmod |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 pain | cc |
| 40 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suffering | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rippled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripple | past | the wavelets | the sides of the pretty vessel | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against side=Location | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the wavelets not said here | vessel's keel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grate | to-infinitive | vessel's keel not said here | upon the sandy beach | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | past | keel | groans and lamentations | like the cries of living creature suffering from sorrow or pain; forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groan=Theme | |||
| 5 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | cry | living creature suffering from sorrow or pain | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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