The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 99
The levers and the lighter parts of the framework were still floating upon the water, tossed hither and thither by the waves and the wind.
Who acts: levers · What happens: float, toss · To what, where: water
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 (levers), 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 levers | det |
| 2 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tossed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 parts | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parts | det |
| 5 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 parts | amod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 levers | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 framework | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 framework | det |
| 9 | framework | framework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 floating | aux |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 floating | advmod |
| 12 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 levers | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 floating | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 levers | punct |
| 17 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 17 tossed | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thither | cc |
| 20 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 18 hither | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tossed | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wind | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waves | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past · progressive | the levers and the lighter parts of the framework not said here | the water | still | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | toss | past | the levers and the lighter parts of the framework | thither | by the waves and the wind; hither property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by wave=Destination |
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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