The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 8
“It is surest to ride thither along the shore.”
What happens: be, ride · To what, where: shore · Speech: someone speaks here
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 surest | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surest | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 surest | cop |
| 4 | surest | sure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ride | mark |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surest | csubj |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 6 ride | advmod |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surest | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 surest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride in a quote | to-infinitive | the shore | thither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along shore=Trajectory |
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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