The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 18
The friendly North Wind filled the sail, the rowers bent to their oars, and the famous voyage was begun.
Who acts: friendly North Wind, rowers · What happens: fill, bend, begin · To what, where: sail, oars, famous voyage
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 (friendly North Wind, rowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 2 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Wind | amod |
| 3 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wind | compound |
| 4 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sail | det |
| 7 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bent | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rowers | det |
| 10 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bent | nsubj |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 oars | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 oars | nmod:poss |
| 14 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 begun | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 begun | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voyage | det |
| 18 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voyage | amod |
| 19 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 begun | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 begun | aux:pass |
| 21 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the friendly North Wind | the sail | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bend | past | the rowers | rowers's oars | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to oar=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past · passive | the famous voyage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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