The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 88
The next moment the vessel’s keel was grating upon the sand; its long prow was jutting quite over the safe, inviting beach.
Who acts: keel, next moment · What happens: grate, jut, invite · To what, where: next moment, safe, beach
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 (keel, next moment), 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 | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jutting | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vessel | det |
| 5 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 vessel | case |
| 7 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grating | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grating | aux |
| 9 | grating | grate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 sand | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sand | det |
| 12 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grating | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 jutting | punct |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 prow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prow | amod |
| 16 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jutting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 jutting | aux |
| 18 | jutting | jut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 jutting | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 safe | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 safe | det |
| 22 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 jutting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 inviting | punct |
| 24 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 jutting | conj |
| 25 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inviting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 jutting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grate | past · progressive | the vessel's keel | the next moment not said here | upon the sand | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus moment=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | jut | past · progressive | the next moment | the safe | keel's long prow nsubj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over safe=Location | |||
| 3 | invite | gerund | the next moment not said here | beach | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Recipient |
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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