The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 68
And round about the feet of the workmen lichens and leafy plants grew up, and in the crannies of the rocks wild flowers bloomed, nourished by the warmth from the magic forge.
Who acts: feet · What happens: grow up, bloom, nourish · To what, where: crannies, wild flowers, rocks
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 (feet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 feet | advmod |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feet | det |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 workmen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 workmen | det |
| 8 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | obl |
| 9 | lichens | lichen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plants | cc |
| 11 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plants | amod |
| 12 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lichens | conj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grew | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crannies | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crannies | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 crannies | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crannies | det |
| 19 | crannies | cranny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rocks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rocks | det |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crannies | nmod |
| 23 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 flowers | amod |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rocks | conj |
| 25 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 flowers | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nourished | punct |
| 27 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 rocks | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 warmth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 warmth | det |
| 30 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nourished | obl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 forge | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 forge | det |
| 33 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 forge | amod |
| 34 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 warmth | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the feet | the crannies of the rocks and wild flowers | of the workmen; lichens and leafy plants nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cranny=Location | |||
| 2 | bloom | participle | wild flowers not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | nourish | participle | the rocks and wild flowers not said here | by the warmth from the magic forge | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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