The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 26
Meanwhile the heroes, rejoicing because of their deliverance, were rapidly nearing their wished-for haven of safety.
Who acts: heroes · What happens: rejoice, near, wish, deliver
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: who acts (heroes), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 rejoicing | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heroes | det |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rejoicing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoicing | punct |
| 5 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 nearing | advcl |
| 6 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 deliverance | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 because | fixed |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoicing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoicing | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nearing | aux |
| 12 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 13 nearing | advmod |
| 13 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wished | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nearing | parataxis |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wished | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 haven | case |
| 18 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wished | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 safety | case |
| 20 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 haven | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 nearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | the heroes | because heroes's deliverance; meanwhile property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | near | past · progressive | rapidly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wish | participle | for haven of safety; heroes = hero nmod:poss | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for haven=Theme | |||||
| 4 | deliver | heroes = hero | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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