The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 44
On what savage shore were you cast?”
What happens: cast · To what, where: you, savage shore
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 shore | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 shore | det |
| 3 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shore | amod |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cast | obl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cast | aux:pass |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 cast | nsubj |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past · passive | you | what savage shore | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on shore=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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