The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 25
The Minstrel, with steady hand and hopeful heart, sat at the stern, guiding the vessel straight through the pathless waters.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: sit, guide · To what, where: stern, vessel, pathless waters
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 (Minstrel), 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 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Minstrel | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heart | cc |
| 8 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Minstrel | punct |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 stern | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stern | det |
| 14 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 guiding | punct |
| 16 | guiding | guide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sat | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vessel | det |
| 18 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 guiding | obj |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 waters | advmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 waters | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waters | det |
| 22 | pathless | pathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 waters | amod |
| 23 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 guiding | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Minstrel | the stern | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at stern=Location | ||||
| 2 | guide | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | the vessel | the pathless waters | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme through water=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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