The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 63
“I have waited till my rowlocks are rusty and my deck boards are rotting.
Who acts: boat, rowlocks, deck boards · What happens: wait, be, rot
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 (boat, rowlocks, deck boards), 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 | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | aux |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 rusty | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 rowlocks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | rowlocks | rowlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rusty | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rusty | cop |
| 9 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rotting | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boards | nmod:poss |
| 12 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boards | compound |
| 13 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rotting | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rotting | aux |
| 15 | rotting | rot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rusty | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · perfect | the boat = boat | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my rowlocks | rusty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rot in a quote | present · progressive | my deck boards | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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