The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 62
On the right and on the left the spray was dashed as the rain in a furious hurricane.
What happens: dash · To what, where: spray
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dashed | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 left | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 left | det |
| 7 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spray | det |
| 9 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dashed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dashed | aux:pass |
| 11 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 rain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rain | det |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dashed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hurricane | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hurricane | det |
| 17 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hurricane | amod |
| 18 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dashed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past · passive | the spray | as the rain; in a furious hurricane; on the right and the left | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument on right=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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