The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 22
The ship is wedged against its back fin—a fin as large as the sail upon our mast.
What happens: wedge · To what, where: ship, back fin
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: 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 | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wedged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wedged | aux:pass |
| 4 | wedged | wedge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 fin | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fin | compound |
| 8 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wedged | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fin | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fin | det |
| 11 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wedged | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 large | advmod |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fin | amod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sail | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sail | det |
| 16 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 large | obl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 mast | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mast | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mast | mast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sail | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wedged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wedge | present · passive | the ship | ship's back fin | a fin obl | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme against fin=Trajectory |
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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