The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 88
By the long white shore a blue crane was wading, looking down to count his toes in the clear sea-water.
Who acts: blue crane · What happens: wade, look down, count · To what, where: toes, clear sea water
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 (blue crane), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shore | amod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shore | amod |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wading | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crane | det |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crane | amod |
| 8 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wading | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wading | aux |
| 10 | wading | wade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wading | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 count | mark |
| 15 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 looking | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 toes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 count | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 20 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 water | amod |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sea | punct |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 count | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wade | past · progressive | a blue crane | by the long white shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look down | gerund | a blue crane not said here | down property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | count | to-infinitive | a blue crane not said here | chin's toes | the clear sea water | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme |
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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