The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 42
At length, deep in the silent forest he found a great stone all streaked and striped in colors of the rainbow.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: find, streak, stripe · To what, where: great stone, colors
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deep | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forest | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stone | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 streaked | advmod |
| 15 | streaked | streak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stone | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 striped | cc |
| 17 | striped | stripe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 streaked | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 colors | case |
| 19 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 striped | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rainbow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rainbow | det |
| 22 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 colors | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Ilmarinen | a great stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | streak | participle | a great stone not said here | all property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stripe | participle | colors of the rainbow | tree rules |
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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