The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 7
High above the masthead of the speeding vessel, the white cliff towered—it towered even to the clouds and the blue sky beyond.
Who acts: white cliff, cliff · What happens: tower · To what, where: masthead
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 (white cliff, cliff), 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 | High | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 above | advmod |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 masthead | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 masthead | det |
| 4 | masthead | masthead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 towered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 vessel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vessel | det |
| 7 | speeding | speeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vessel | compound |
| 8 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 masthead | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 masthead | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cliff | amod |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 towered | nsubj |
| 13 | towered | tower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 towered | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 towered | nsubj |
| 16 | towered | tower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 towered | conj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 clouds | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 clouds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 clouds | det |
| 20 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 towered | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sky | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sky | amod |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clouds | conj |
| 25 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 16 towered | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 towered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | past | the white cliff | the masthead of the speeding vessel | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above masthead=Location | ||||
| 2 | tower | past | cliff | to the clouds and the blue sky; beyond property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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