The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 150

Thus all day the red ship drifted helpless upon the raging sea; for two long days the tempest prevailed and the heroes were in despair.

Who acts: red ship, tempest, heroes · What happens: drift, rage, prevail, be · To what, where: despair

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 (red ship, tempest, heroes), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	7 drifted	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drifted	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ship	amod
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drifted	nsubj
7	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 drifted	xcomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
11	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sea	amod
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helpless	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 prevailed	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 prevailed	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tempest	det
19	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prevailed	nsubj
20	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drifted	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 despair	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heroes	det
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 despair	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 despair	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 despair	case
26	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prevailed	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	past	the red ship		day	helpless, thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rage	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prevail	past	the tempest		day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the heroes	despair			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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 150

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 150