The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 58
But the third side is the best.
Who acts: third side · What happens: be
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 (third side), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 best | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 best | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 best | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the third side | good property | 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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