The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 6
On the third day it sailed through narrow straits between small islands, approaching by stealth the longed-for haven of Pohyola.
Who acts: ship · What happens: sail, approach, long · To what, where: narrow straits, longed haven
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 straits | case |
| 8 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 straits | amod |
| 9 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sailed | obl |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 islands | case |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 islands | amod |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 straits | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 approaching | punct |
| 14 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sailed | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 stealth | case |
| 16 | stealth | stealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approaching | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 haven | det |
| 18 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 haven | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 longed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 haven | case |
| 21 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approaching | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Pohyola | case |
| 23 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 haven | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | ship | narrow straits between small islands | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through strait=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | approach | gerund | ship not said here | the longed haven of Pohyola | by stealth | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haven=Theme | |||
| 3 | long | participle | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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