The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 99
Instantly the ship sprang forward like a wild bird beginning its flight.
Who acts: ship, wild bird · What happens: spring, begin · To what, where: flight
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 (ship, wild bird), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bird | amod |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 10 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bird | acl |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flight | nmod:poss |
| 12 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beginning | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the ship | like a wild bird; forward, instantly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | gerund | a wild bird not said here | ship's flight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality |
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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