The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 133
“My hair is soaked with salt-water and my beard trembles with the shaking of the ship.
Who acts: beard · What happens: soak, tremble, shake · To what, where: hair, ship
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 (beard), 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 soaked | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soaked | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soaked | aux:pass |
| 5 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 7 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 water | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 salt | punct |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soaked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trembles | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beard | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembles | nsubj |
| 13 | trembles | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soaked | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 shaking | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shaking | det |
| 16 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembles | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ship | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shaking | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soak in a quote | present · passive | My hair | with salt water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tremble in a quote | present | my beard | with the shaking of the ship | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | the ship | nom shaking «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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