The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 48
With masterly skill he piloted the vessel through narrow ways, he guided it along deep, winding channels, and finally steered it to the mainland, where it rested in a safe, well-sheltered haven close by the village of Pohyola.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, channel · What happens: pilot, guide, wind, steer, rest, shelter · To what, where: vessel, narrow ways, deep, channels, channel, mainland
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 (Wainamoinen, channel), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 skill | case |
| 2 | masterly | masterly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 skill | amod |
| 3 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piloted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 piloted | nsubj |
| 5 | piloted | pilot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piloted | obj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ways | amod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piloted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guided | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 guided | nsubj |
| 13 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piloted | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 guided | obj |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 deep | case |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 guided | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 winding | punct |
| 18 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 guided | advcl |
| 19 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 winding | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 steered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 steered | cc |
| 22 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 23 steered | advmod |
| 23 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piloted | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 steered | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 mainland | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mainland | det |
| 27 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 steered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rested | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 rested | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 rested | nsubj |
| 31 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 mainland | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 haven | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 haven | det |
| 34 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 haven | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 safe | punct |
| 36 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 38 sheltered | discourse |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 well | punct |
| 38 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 haven | amod |
| 39 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rested | obl |
| 40 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 haven | amod |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 village | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 village | det |
| 43 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 close | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Pohyola | case |
| 45 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 village | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piloted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pilot | past | Wainamoinen | the vessel | narrow ways | with masterly skill | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | guide | past | Wainamoinen | vessel | deep | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme along deep=Destination | |||
| 3 | wind | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | channels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent channel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | steer | past | Wainamoinen not said here | channel | the mainland | finally property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mainland=Destination | ||
| 5 | rest | past | channel | a safe sheltered haven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haven=Location | ||||
| 6 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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