The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 10
The nimble Ahti seized a long pole and thrust it into the water, trying with all his great strength to push the ship along.
Who acts: nimble Ahti, ship · What happens: seize, pole, try, push · To what, where: water, ship
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 (nimble Ahti, ship), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ahti | det |
| 2 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Ahti | amod |
| 3 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pole | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pole | amod |
| 7 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrust | cc |
| 9 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pole | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pole | nsubj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trying | punct |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 seized | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 strength | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 strength | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 strength | nmod:poss |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strength | amod |
| 20 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trying | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 push | mark |
| 22 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 push | obj |
| 25 | along | along | ADV | _ | 22 push | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the nimble Ahti | the water | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pole | ship | thrust conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | the nimble Ahti not said here | with Ahti's great strength | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | push | to-infinitive | the nimble Ahti not said here | the ship | along property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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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