The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 52

From morning until mid-day, and from mid-day until evening, it ploughed its way through the surging waves; the land faded from sight, and the heroes, looking forward, could see naught but one vast field of tossing waters.

Who acts: vessel, land, heroes, one vast field · What happens: plough, fade, look, see, toss · To what, where: way, surging waves, sight, naught, waters

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 (vessel, land, heroes, one vast field), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 morning	case
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ploughed	obl
3	until	until	ADP	_	4 mid-day	case
4	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mid-day	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mid-day	cc
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 mid-day	case
8	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	appos
9	until	until	ADP	_	10 evening	case
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mid-day	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ploughed	nsubj
13	ploughed	plough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ploughed	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 waves	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 waves	det
18	surging	surging	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waves	compound
19	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ploughed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 faded	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 faded	nsubj
23	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ploughed	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 sight	case
25	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 faded	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looking	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looking	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heroes	det
29	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 looking	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heroes	punct
31	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ploughed	advcl
32	forward	forward	ADV	_	31 looking	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 looking	advcl
36	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	35 see	obj
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 field	cc
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 field	nummod
39	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 field	amod
40	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 naught	conj
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 tossing	mark
42	tossing	toss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 field	acl
43	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tossing	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ploughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plough	past	vessel	vessel's way	the surging waves	morning		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent way=Initial_Location
2	fade	past	the land		sight			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	look	gerund	the heroes				forward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	could	the heroes not said here	naught one vast field				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer naught=Stimulus
5	toss	gerund	one vast field not said here	waters				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 52