The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 17
And the Mistress herself stood at the helm and with gaunt hands wielded the great rudder and steered the vessel out to sea.
Who acts: Mistress, gaunt hands · What happens: stand, wield, steer out · To what, where: helm, great rudder, vessel, sea
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, gaunt hands), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mistress | det |
| 3 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 helm | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 helm | det |
| 8 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wielded | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hands | amod |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wielded | nsubj |
| 13 | wielded | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rudder | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rudder | amod |
| 16 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wielded | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 steered | cc |
| 18 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wielded | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vessel | det |
| 20 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steered | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 steered | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 steered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Mistress | the helm | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at helm=Location | ||||
| 2 | wield | past | gaunt hands | the great rudder | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rudder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steer out | past | gaunt hands not said here | the vessel | sea | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme to sea=Destination |
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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