The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 3
BY JAMES BALDWIN Illustrated by N.
What happens: illustrate · To what, where: JAMES
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: 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 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 2 JAMES | case |
| 2 | JAMES | JAMES | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | BALDWIN | BALDWIN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 JAMES | flat |
| 4 | Illustrated | illustrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 JAMES | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 N | case |
| 6 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Illustrated | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 JAMES | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illustrate | participle | JAMES not said here | by N | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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