The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 10
The warship was wedged firmly in a rift of the great ice cliff.
What happens: wedge · To what, where: warship, rift
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warship | det |
| 2 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wedged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wedged | aux:pass |
| 4 | wedged | wedge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 4 wedged | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rift | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rift | det |
| 8 | rift | rift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wedged | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cliff | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cliff | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cliff | amod |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cliff | compound |
| 13 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rift | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wedged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wedge | past · passive | the warship | a rift of the great ice cliff | firmly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in rift=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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