The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 23
An old, old woman, gray-eyed, hook-nosed, wrinkled, was sitting on the rock and busily spinning.
Who acts: old old woman · What happens: nose, wrinkle, sit, spin · To what, where: rock
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 (old old woman), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 old | punct |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyed | punct |
| 7 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyed | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 gray | punct |
| 9 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nosed | punct |
| 11 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nosed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hook | punct |
| 13 | nosed | nose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrinkled | punct |
| 15 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nosed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sitting | aux |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sitting | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spinning | cc |
| 23 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 24 spinning | advmod |
| 24 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sitting | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nose | participle | hook compound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | a old old woman | the rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | a old old woman not said here | busily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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