The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 16
Holding fast with one hand to the vessel’s edge, he let himself down into the water.
Who acts: hero · What happens: hold, let down · To what, where: hero, water
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 (hero), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 let | advcl |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Holding | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hand | nummod |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vessel | det |
| 8 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 edge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 vessel | case |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Holding | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | nsubj |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 let | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | hero not said here | with one hand; to the vessel's edge; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let down | past | hero | hero | the water | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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