The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 21
Meanwhile the heroes on their storm-battered red ship were sailing hopefully homeward, thanking Jumala for their escape from the fog and the storm.
Who acts: heroes · What happens: batter, sail, thank, escape · To what, where: homeward, Jumala, fog
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 (heroes), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 12 sailing | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heroes | det |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sailing | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ship | nmod:poss |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battered | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 storm | punct |
| 8 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ship | amod |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heroes | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sailing | aux |
| 12 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | hopefully | hopefully | ADV | _ | 14 homeward | advmod |
| 14 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sailing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thanking | punct |
| 16 | thanking | thank | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sailing | conj |
| 17 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thanking | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 escape | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 escape | nmod:poss |
| 20 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanking | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 fog | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fog | det |
| 23 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 escape | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 storm | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 storm | det |
| 26 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fog | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | participle | storm compound | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sail | past · progressive | the heroes on heroes's battered red ship | homeward | meanwhile property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the heroes on heroes's battered red ship not said here | Jumala | for heroes's escape from the fog and the storm | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jumala=Theme for escape=Attribute | |||
| 4 | escape | heroes = hero | the fog and the storm | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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