The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 83
It stood in its place, rocking on the waves of the open sea.
Who acts: vessel · What happens: stand, rock, wave · To what, where: place, waves, open sea
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 (vessel), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 place | nmod:poss |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rocking | punct |
| 7 | rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 waves | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waves | det |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rocking | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sea | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waves | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | vessel | vessel's place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | rock | gerund | vessel not said here | the waves of the open sea | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wave=Location | ||||
| 3 | wave | the open sea | nom wave «event transitive»: of=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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