The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 80
They could see the hundred long oars rising and falling as though moved by a single hand.
Who acts: heroes, hundred long oars · What happens: see, rise, fall, move · To what, where: hundred long 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: who acts (heroes, hundred long oars), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oars | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 oars | nummod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oars | amod |
| 7 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| 8 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 oars | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 falling | cc |
| 10 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 rising | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 moved | advmod |
| 12 | though | though | ADV | _ | 13 moved | advmod |
| 13 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 falling | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moved | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | heroes = hero | the hundred long oars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oar=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | the hundred long oars not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | the hundred long oars not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | move | participle | the hundred long oars not said here | by a single hand; though property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by hand=Trajectory |
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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