The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 11
What was it that had thus so suddenly stopped the flight of the gallant vessel?
Who acts: ship · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: flight
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 (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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 stopped | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | advcl |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 stopped | advmod |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flight | det |
| 11 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 vessel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 14 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flight | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ship | that nsubj; have, thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the flight of the gallant vessel | What obj; suddenly property | tree rules |
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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