The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 35
“It is the same shore from which the storm drove us three days ago; but the distance is great.”
Who acts: smile, storm, distance · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: same shore, us
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 (smile, storm, distance), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shore | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shore | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shore | amod |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 drove | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | nsubj |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shore | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 drove | obj |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 great | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 great | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 great | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 great | cop |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shore | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | smile | the same shore | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | past | the storm | us | the same shore | ago property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from which=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the distance | great property | tree rules |
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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