The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 30
The rowers paused in their rowing and looked up, amazed, confounded.
Who acts: rowers · What happens: pause, look up, confound, row · To what, where: rowing
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 (rowers), 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 rowers | det |
| 2 | rowers | rower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rowing | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rowing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rowing | rowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 looked | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazed | punct |
| 11 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paused | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 confounded | punct |
| 13 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 amazed | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the rowers | rowers's rowing | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rowing=Location | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | the rowers not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | confound | participle | the rowers not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | row | rowers = rower | nom rowing «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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