The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 1
With eyes that never failed and arms that never tired the Minstrel stood by the helm and guided the vessel around the jutting headland and straight forward into the great white sea.
Who acts: eyes, arms · What happens: not fail, stand, guide, jut · To what, where: vessel, jutting headland
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, arms), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 eyes | case |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 failed | advmod |
| 5 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 arms | cc |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 tired | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 tired | advmod |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arms | amod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Minstrel | det |
| 12 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tired | appos |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 helm | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 helm | det |
| 16 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 guided | cc |
| 18 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vessel | det |
| 20 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guided | obj |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 headland | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 headland | det |
| 23 | jutting | jut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 headland | amod |
| 24 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guided | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sea | cc |
| 26 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 forward | advmod |
| 27 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 32 sea | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 sea | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sea | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sea | amod |
| 31 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sea | amod |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 headland | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | past | eyes | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | arms | by the helm | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by helm=Location | ||||
| 3 | guide | past | eyes not said here | the vessel | the jutting headland and the great white sea | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme around headland=Destination | |||
| 4 | jut | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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