The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 110
The Smith looked long ere he could see what was forming.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: look, see, form · To what, where: long ere · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Smith | det |
| 2 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ere | amod |
| 5 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ere | acl:relcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 forming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 forming | aux |
| 11 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Smith | long ere | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ere=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Smith | long ere not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | past · progressive | what nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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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