The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 50
Merrily and hopefully, then, the rowers rowed; the Minstrel steered, and the strong North Wind pushed against the well-stretched sail.
Who acts: rowers, Minstrel, strong North Wind · What happens: row, steer, push, stretch
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 (rowers, Minstrel, strong North Wind), 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 | Merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 9 rowed | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hopefully | cc |
| 3 | hopefully | hopefully | ADV | _ | 1 Merrily | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Merrily | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 rowed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rowers | det |
| 8 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rowed | nsubj |
| 9 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 steered | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Minstrel | det |
| 12 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 steered | nsubj |
| 13 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rowed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pushed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pushed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wind | det |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Wind | amod |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wind | compound |
| 19 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pushed | nsubj |
| 20 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rowed | conj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 sail | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sail | det |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 stretched | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sail | amod |
| 26 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | the rowers | then | merrily property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | steer | past | the Minstrel | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | push | past | the strong North Wind | against the stretched sail | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against sail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stretch | participle | well property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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