The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 128
Like a withered leaf of autumn the ship was driven hither and thither through the mists and fearful darkness.
What happens: wither, drive · To what, where: ship, mists
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: 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 leaf | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 3 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 leaf | amod |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driven | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 autumn | case |
| 6 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 driven | aux:pass |
| 10 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 10 driven | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thither | cc |
| 13 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 11 hither | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 mists | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mists | det |
| 16 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 driven | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 darkness | cc |
| 18 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 darkness | amod |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mists | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | the ship | the mists and fearful darkness; thither | like a withered leaf of autumn; hither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme through mist=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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