The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 41
There they lashed it with ropes to the strong deck beams.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: lash · To what, where: leaf
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lashed | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lashed | nsubj |
| 3 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lashed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ropes | case |
| 6 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lashed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 beams | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beams | det |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beams | amod |
| 10 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beams | compound |
| 11 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lashed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lash | past | Ilmarinen | leaf | there | with ropes; to the strong deck beams | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with rope=Instrument to beam=Co-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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