The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 46
Instantly the hundred oars were dipped into the waves, all the rowers pulled together and the ship began again to move steadily, proudly through the water.
Who acts: waves, rowers, ship · What happens: dip, pull together, begin, move · To what, where: hundred oars, 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 (waves, rowers, 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 oars | nummod |
| 4 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dipped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dipped | aux:pass |
| 6 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dipped | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pulled | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rowers | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rowers | det |
| 13 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pulled | nsubj |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dipped | parataxis |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pulled | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 began | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 move | mark |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 23 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 22 move | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 water | punct |
| 25 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 28 water | advmod |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 move | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past · passive | the waves | hundred oars | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull together | past | all rowers | together property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the ship | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive | the ship not said here | the water | steadily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through water=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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