The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 22
He found Water at home in the deep sea, and by him he was welcomed kindly enough.
Who acts: Water · What happens: find, welcome · To what, where: Water, home
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 welcomed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 welcomed | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 16 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | conj |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 16 welcomed | advmod |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 welcomed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Water | Water | home | in the deep sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent water=Theme at home=Asset | ||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | Water | enough, kindly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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