The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 29
She saw the inky clouds swiftly sailing from the South Land and the gray wolves of the air racing madly over the sea.
Who acts: Louhi, inky clouds, air · What happens: see, sail, race · To what, where: inky clouds, South Land, sea
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Louhi, inky clouds, air), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clouds | det |
| 4 | inky | inky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clouds | amod |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 7 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Land | det |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Land | compound |
| 11 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sailing | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wolves | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wolves | det |
| 14 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wolves | compound |
| 15 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Land | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wolves | nmod |
| 19 | racing | race | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 air | acl |
| 20 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 19 racing | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 racing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Louhi | the inky clouds | swiftly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sail | gerund | the inky clouds not said here | the South Land and the gray wolves of the air | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from land=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | race | gerund | the air not said here | the sea | madly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory |
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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