The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 6
Right in the ship’s pathway a huge iceberg rose dripping from the sea, a mighty, impassable barrier blocking the way like a massive wall of iron.
Who acts: huge iceberg, mighty impassable barrier · What happens: rise, drip, block · To what, where: pathway, sea, way
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 (huge iceberg, mighty impassable barrier), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 6 pathway | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pathway | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pathway | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 6 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 iceberg | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 iceberg | amod |
| 9 | iceberg | iceberg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | dripping | drip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 rose | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dripping | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 barrier | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 barrier | det |
| 17 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 barrier | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mighty | punct |
| 19 | impassable | impassable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 barrier | amod |
| 20 | barrier | barrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sea | appos |
| 21 | blocking | block | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 barrier | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blocking | obj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 wall | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wall | det |
| 26 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wall | amod |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blocking | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 iron | case |
| 29 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wall | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a huge iceberg | the ship's pathway | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drip | gerund | a huge iceberg not said here | the sea | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from sea=Source | ||||
| 3 | block | gerund | a mighty impassable barrier not said here | the way | like a massive wall of iron | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=Theme |
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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