The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 31

He climbed the mast to its splintered top, and there he stood, balanced on one foot, unmoved and unafraid, as though on solid ground.

Who acts: cloud · What happens: climb, splinter, stand, balance · To what, where: mast, one foot

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 (cloud), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mast	det
4	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 top	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 top	nmod:poss
7	splintered	splinter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 top	amod
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 stood	expl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 balanced	punct
15	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stood	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 foot	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 foot	nummod
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 balanced	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 unmoved	punct
20	unmoved	unmoved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 foot	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 unafraid	cc
22	unafraid	unafraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 unmoved	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ground	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 ground	case
25	though	though	ADV	_	28 ground	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ground	amod
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 balanced	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	cloud	the mast		to mast's splintered top result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mast=Extent to top=Result
2	splinter	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stand	past	cloud		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	balance	participle	cloud not said here		one foot	as solid ground	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 31