The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 15
“And when I swept my brush across from east to west, some drops of blue fell into the sea and colored it also.”
Who acts: Ilmarinen, drops · What happens: sweep, fall, color · To what, where: brush, east, sea
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 (Ilmarinen, drops), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swept | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swept | cc |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 swept | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 swept | nsubj |
| 5 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brush | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swept | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADV | _ | 5 swept | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 east | case |
| 10 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swept | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 west | case |
| 12 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 east | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 drops | det |
| 15 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 blue | case |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drops | nmod |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swept | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 colored | cc |
| 23 | colored | color | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fell | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 colored | obj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 colored | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swept | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep in a quote | past | Ilmarinen | my brush | east to west | across property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brush=Theme from east=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | some drops of blue | into the sea result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | color in a quote | past | some drops of blue not said here | brush | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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