The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 87
By now the red ship had floated far, and the few remaining heroes shouted as, looking upward, they saw the friendly headland looming right above them.
Who acts: few remaining heroes, heroes, friendly headland · What happens: float, shout, look, see, loom · To what, where: red ship, friendly headland
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 (few remaining heroes, heroes, friendly headland), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 floated | mark |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 floated | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ship | amod |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 floated | aux |
| 7 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 saw | advcl |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 floated | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shouted | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heroes | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heroes | amod |
| 13 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heroes | amod |
| 14 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shouted | nsubj |
| 15 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 floated | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 looking | mark |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 shouted | advcl |
| 19 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 18 looking | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 floated | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 headland | det |
| 24 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 headland | amod |
| 25 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 26 | looming | loom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 headland | acl |
| 27 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 them | advmod |
| 28 | above | above | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looming | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past · perfect · passive | the red ship | now | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | participle | the few remaining heroes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the few remaining heroes not said here | upward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | heroes = hero | the friendly headland | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headland=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | loom | gerund | the friendly headland not said here | above heroes = hero | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location |
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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