The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 60
The red ship swayed from side to side as its sharp prow cut its way through the billows.
Who acts: red ship · What happens: sway, cut · To what, where: red ship, side, way, billows
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 (red ship), 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 | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ship | amod |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | swayed | sway | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ship | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swayed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swayed | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 prow | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 prow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prow | amod |
| 12 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swayed | obl |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 billows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 billows | det |
| 18 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | participle | the red ship not said here | side | to side; as ship's sharp prow | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cut | past | the red ship | ship's way | the billows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material way=Product |
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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