The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 64

Worms are gnawing through my beams; toads are leaping in my hold; birds are nesting on my mast; all my sails and ropes are mildewed.

Who acts: Worms, toads, birds, my · What happens: gnaw, leap, nest, mildew, beam, hold · To what, where: beams, hold, mast, sails

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 (Worms, toads, birds, my), 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	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gnawing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gnawing	aux
3	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 beams	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beams	nmod:poss
6	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gnawing	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 leaping	punct
8	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 leaping	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 leaping	aux
10	leaping	leap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gnawing	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hold	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hold	nmod:poss
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaping	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 nesting	punct
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 nesting	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nesting	aux
17	nesting	nest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gnawing	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 mast	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mast	nmod:poss
20	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nesting	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sails	punct
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sails	det:predet
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sails	nmod:poss
24	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mildewed	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ropes	cc
26	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sails	conj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 mildewed	aux:pass
28	mildewed	mildew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 nesting	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gnawing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	gnaw	present · progressive	Worms		my beams	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leap	present · progressive	toads		my hold	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hold=Trajectory
3	nest	present · progressive	birds		my mast	tree rules
4	mildew	present · passive		my sails and ropes		tree rules
5	beam		my			nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	hold		my			nom hold «act transitive»: poss=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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 64