The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 79
The heroes looking back could see a host of armed men standing beneath the wind-filled sail.
Who acts: heroes, armed men · What happens: look back, see, stand, fill · To what, where: host, filled sail
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, armed men), 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 | 2 heroes | det |
| 2 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | nsubj |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 heroes | acl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 host | det |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 host | nmod |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 men | acl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 sail | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sail | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wind | punct |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sail | amod |
| 18 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | the heroes not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | could | the heroes | a host of armed men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | armed men not said here | the filled sail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath sail=Location | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | wind compound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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