The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 21
High in the sky he saw a rainbow, and on it the Maid of Beauty.
Who acts: High sky · What happens: see · To what, where: rainbow
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High sky), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sky | amod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sky | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rainbow | det |
| 8 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 it | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 it | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Maid | det |
| 14 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 it | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Beauty | case |
| 16 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Maid | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the High sky | a rainbow | rainbow | sky nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rainbow=Stimulus |
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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