The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 98
He took the oar in his labor-hardened hands, he dipped its blade in the singing water and began rowing.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: take, harden, dip, sing, begin, row · To what, where: oar, hardened hands, blade, singing water
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oar | det |
| 4 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hardened | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 labor | punct |
| 9 | hardened | harden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hands | amod |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dipped | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dipped | nsubj |
| 13 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 blade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dipped | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dipped | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dipped | conj |
| 22 | rowing | row | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 began | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ilmarinen | the oar | Ilmarinen's hardened hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oar=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | harden | participle | labor compound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | dip | past | Ilmarinen | prow's blade | the singing water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blade=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | begin | past | Ilmarinen not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | row | gerund | Ilmarinen not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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