The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 64
“We are lost!” moaned the young men, desperately bending to their oars.
What happens: lose, moan, bend · To what, where: We, young men, oars
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 moaned | advcl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 7 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moaned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bending | punct |
| 12 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 13 bending | advmod |
| 13 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 moaned | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 oars | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 oars | nmod:poss |
| 16 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bending | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present · passive | We | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | moan | past | the young men | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bend | gerund | men's oars | desperately property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to oar=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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