The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 113
“They must have carried it to their red-prowed ship,” said another old man, “for the haven where it was moored is empty and no crimson sail is anywhere in sight.”
Who acts: old man, crimson sail · What happens: carry, prow, say, moor, be · To what, where: men, mountain, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, crimson sail), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 carried | aux |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ship | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 red | punct |
| 11 | prowed | prow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ship | amod |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 empty | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 empty | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 haven | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 haven | det |
| 23 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 empty | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 moored | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 moored | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 moored | aux:pass |
| 27 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 haven | acl:relcl |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 empty | cop |
| 29 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 anywhere | cc |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 sail | det |
| 32 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sail | compound |
| 33 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 anywhere | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 anywhere | cop |
| 35 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 empty | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 sight | case |
| 37 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 anywhere | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | must · perfect · passive | men = man | to men's red prowed ship; mountain obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Value | ||||
| 2 | prow in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | another old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | moor in a quote | past · passive | mountain | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | for the haven; empty property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | no crimson sail | sight | anywhere property | tree rules |
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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