The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 63
But, swiftly as the heroes rowed, their vessel moved not half so swiftly as the warship of Pohyola.
Who acts: heroes, vessel · What happens: row, not move · To what, where: half
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 (heroes, vessel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 moved | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rowed | punct |
| 3 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 rowed | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 rowed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heroes | det |
| 6 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rowed | nsubj |
| 7 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rowed | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 10 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moved | nsubj |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 moved | advmod |
| 13 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 moved | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 swiftly | advmod |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 11 moved | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 warship | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 warship | det |
| 18 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moved | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Pohyola | case |
| 20 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 warship | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | the heroes | swiftly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not move | past | heroes's vessel | half | as the warship of Pohyola; swiftly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
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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