The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 18
He filled the air with snowflakes, he covered the hills with a coating of ice.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: fill, cover · To what, where: air, hills
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 air | det |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 snowflakes | case |
| 6 | snowflakes | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 filled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 covered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 covered | nsubj |
| 9 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 filled | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hills | det |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 covered | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 coating | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coating | det |
| 14 | coating | coating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 covered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ice | case |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coating | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Ilmarinen | the air | with snowflakes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with snowflake=Instrument | |||
| 2 | cover | past | Ilmarinen | the hills | with a coating of ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Destination with coating=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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