The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 7
“It is pleasantest to go thither by ship.”
What happens: be, go
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: 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 pleasantest | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pleasantest | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasantest | cop |
| 4 | pleasantest | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleasantest | acl |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasantest | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasantest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | pleasant property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | by ship; thither property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ship=Location |
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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