The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 22
The Sampo was still safely secured with strong ropes to the bow beams of their brave vessel; its wheels were whirring; its levers were at work; it was grinding out great streams of salt to feed the hungry sea.
Who acts: wheels, levers, Sampo · What happens: secure, whir, be, grind out, feed, beam · To what, where: Sampo, work, great streams, hungry sea, brave vessel
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 (wheels, levers, Sampo), 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 | 2 Sampo | det |
| 2 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 secured | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 secured | advmod |
| 5 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 6 secured | advmod |
| 6 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 ropes | case |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ropes | amod |
| 9 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 secured | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 beams | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beams | det |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beams | compound |
| 13 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 secured | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 vessel | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vessel | amod |
| 17 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beams | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 whirring | punct |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 whirring | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 whirring | aux |
| 22 | whirring | whir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 secured | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 work | punct |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 levers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 work | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 work | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 work | case |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 whirring | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 grinding | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 grinding | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 grinding | aux |
| 32 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 whirring | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 grinding | compound:prt |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 streams | amod |
| 35 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 grinding | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 salt | case |
| 37 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 streams | nmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 feed | mark |
| 39 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 grinding | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sea | det |
| 41 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sea | amod |
| 42 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 feed | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | past · passive | the Sampo | still | with strong ropes; to the bow beams of beams's brave vessel; safely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with rope=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | whir | past · progressive | Sampo's wheels | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Sampo's levers | work | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grind out | past · progressive | Sampo | great streams of salt | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument stream=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feed | to-infinitive | Sampo not said here | the hungry sea | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | beam | beams's brave vessel | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=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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