The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 119
Of all the multitude none remained awake save the heroes and the young men and maidens that had plied the oars on board of the crimson ship.
Who acts: young men · What happens: save, ply · To what, where: heroes, oars, board
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 none | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 none | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 none | det |
| 4 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 none | compound |
| 5 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 8 save | obl |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 save | aux |
| 7 | awake | awake | ADV | _ | 8 save | advmod |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heroes | det |
| 10 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 save | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 plied | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plied | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 maidens | cc |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 men | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 plied | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 plied | aux |
| 19 | plied | ply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 save | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oars | det |
| 21 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plied | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 board | case |
| 23 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plied | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 ship | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ship | det |
| 26 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ship | compound |
| 27 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 board | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | the heroes | of none; awake property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ply | past · perfect | the young men and maidens | the oars | board of the crimson ship | that nsubj | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent oar=Recipient |
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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